Problem-Based Learning in Social Policy Class: a Semester-Long Project Within Organizational Policy Practice

Street, Lisa A.; Martin, Patrick H.; White, Andrew; Stevens, Amy

doi:10.1007/s42972-022-00047-4

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“…Unfortunately, German universities rarely offer courses which focus on policymaking strategies as part of academic social work programs (Burzlaff, 2021). Accordingly, there is a need to adapt existing programs and concepts from other countries (for instance, Street et al, 2022;Weiss-Gal & Savaya, 2012).…”

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Political Actions of Youth Workers

Kessler

2022

J of Pol Practice & Research

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The ability to act politically is supposedly one of the core competencies of youth workers in Germany. Surprisingly, there is little knowledge about political activities of youth workers in Germany and elsewhere. In this article, I address this research gap by questioning how youth workers act politically. I present findings from the qualitative research project “civic education in youth work” and provide insights into the narrated practices of the interviewed youth workers in their contact with local politics and authorities. Based on a reconstructive interpretation using the documentary method (Bohnsack in Documentary Method. In U. Flick (Ed.), The sage handbook of qualitative analysis (pp. 217–233). Sage, 2014; Nohl in Narrative interview and documentary interpretation. In R. Bohnsack, N. Pfaff, & W. Weller (Eds.), Qualitative Analysis and Documentary Method in International Education Research (pp. 195–217). Barbara Budrich, 2010), I am able to identify three different types of political practices of youth workers and their underlying implicit orientations. There are youth workers who are reluctant to engage politically, who engage only in the face of an immediate threat, or who engage politically as part of their professional role as youth workers.

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Political Actions of Youth Workers

Kessler

2022

J of Pol Practice & Research

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Strategies of Social Workers’ Policy Engagement—a Qualitative Analysis Among Swiss Social Workers Holding Elected Office

Kindler

Amann

2022

J of Pol Practice & Research

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While ethical documents all around the globe call upon social workers to actively participate in policymaking processes, there is little evidence of their actual engagement in this type of practice. In particular, the fact that social workers also engage in party-politics by running for or holding elected office has been neglected in most of the existing research. Therefore, this article focuses on this very specific route of policy engagement by examining strategies for influencing policymaking processes used by Swiss social workers holding political office. To do so, 31 social workers holding elected office in the German-speaking part of Switzerland were invited to write a book chapter in an edited volume. The authors were explicitly asked to describe in detail their strategies and methods for influencing policymaking processes, and to place social work issues on the political agenda. Based on a qualitative content analysis of the book chapters, the following strategies were identified: (1) bringing social work’s professional expertise into policymaking processes, (2) doing good and talking about it, (3) presenting facts and figures, (4) organizing the profession, (5) networking, and (6) “normalizing” policy engagement in social work. The findings suggest that political content should be strengthened in social work education and further promoted by professional associations. This would empower more social workers to run for political office and enable them to contribute their specific skills, knowledge, and expertise to policymaking processes.

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The affective and spatiotemporal benefits of podcasting for teaching social policy practice: learning to ‘love’ social policy

Lohmeyer

2024

Social Work Education

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Problem-Based Learning in Social Policy Class: a Semester-Long Project Within Organizational Policy Practice

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

Political Actions of Youth Workers

Political Actions of Youth Workers

Strategies of Social Workers’ Policy Engagement—a Qualitative Analysis Among Swiss Social Workers Holding Elected Office

The affective and spatiotemporal benefits of podcasting for teaching social policy practice: learning to ‘love’ social policy

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