Social Work in Eastern Europe

Zaviršek, Darja

doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.28089-6

“…Market principles have entered social service provision and NGOs' (often international) play an important role. The social work legislation has been modernised towards community work; however, implementation of such work is lagging behind (Zavirsek, 2015). Generally, the development trend is towards a liberal or employment-centred rationale, however, with quite underdeveloped areas, such as social work.…”

Section: Youth Outreach Contextsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reaching without outreaching: A comparative policy study of EU member states policy agenda on youth unemployment

Andersson

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Minas

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2021

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Youth unemployment is a global issue, with supranational actors calling for policy responses, including early interventions such as outreach. This article examines how EU member states have translated the EU youth guarantee (YG) recommendation, focusing on early interventions in the form of outreach. Combining quantitative content analysis with corpus linguistics, we examined the YG implementation plans of 19 EU member states having differing institutional conditions, comparing if and how they have incorporated outreach in their policy agenda. Overall we found very little outreach in the YG‐plans. In the outreach described, guidance and information on education and labour market efforts dominate, whereas social work and local level community work is largely absent. We found type of outreach to be related to institutional conditions. Our results also imply that getting member states to commit to early interventions such as outreach requires that the EU stress this issue with greater emphasis.

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“…Various literature on the subject shows that at the beginning of the 20 th century social work in socialist countries periodically went hand in hand with its Western counterparts following the ideas of fi ghting economic and social inequalities (Zavirsek, 2015). However, social work being caught up in an authoritarian political regime, where communist leaders did not allow any innovations except those that introduced by the Communist Party, could not realize its potential fully (Smirnova, 2013).…”

Section: Contextualizing the Research: The Case Of Polandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Work and Labor Migration: The Impact of Maternal Migration on Families and Children Left Behind

Teguihanon¹

2021

Minding the Gaps and Challenging the Change in Social Work: International Research in Poland Under Erasmus Mundus ADVANCES

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Th e article explores the experience of implementing the international studying program ADVANCES (Advanced Development in Social Work) in terms of the challenges and dilemmas in designing and realizing joint education & research programs. Th e program exposes the diff erence between 'the talk' and 'the walk' in the global social work concept building of human and institutional capacities, on the one hand, and merging theory and practice in preparation to contemporary social work profession, on the other. It also brings to light the process of integrating models and understandings of how international collaboration in higher education could look like (and be delivered worldwide). Th e ADVANCES program, which integrates the theories and practices that were formerly approached separately in social work, creates a context for the European (and, by extension, international) status of social work, while its respective components, such as the experience of social work institutions and their benefi ciaries, contribute a new, global value to the discussion by demonstrating the 'diverse universe' of helping professions off ers.

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“…Various literature on the subject shows that at the beginning of the 20 th century social work in socialist countries periodically went hand in hand with its Western counterparts following the ideas of fi ghting economic and social inequalities (Zavirsek, 2015). However, social work being caught up in an authoritarian political regime, where communist leaders did not allow any innovations except those that introduced by the Communist Party, could not realize its potential fully (Smirnova, 2013).…”

Section: Contextualizing the Research: The Case Of Polandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sharing Experience and Learning in Doing International Research: The Case of the Erasmus Mundus ADVANCES Program

Naumiuk¹

2021

Minding the Gaps and Challenging the Change in Social Work: International Research in Poland Under Erasmus Mundus ADVANCES

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Th e article explores the experience of implementing the international studying program ADVANCES (Advanced Development in Social Work) in terms of the challenges and dilemmas in designing and realizing joint education & research programs. Th e program exposes the diff erence between 'the talk' and 'the walk' in the global social work concept building of human and institutional capacities, on the one hand, and merging theory and practice in preparation to contemporary social work profession, on the other. It also brings to light the process of integrating models and understandings of how international collaboration in higher education could look like (and be delivered worldwide). Th e ADVANCES program, which integrates the theories and practices that were formerly approached separately in social work, creates a context for the European (and, by extension, international) status of social work, while its respective components, such as the experience of social work institutions and their benefi ciaries, contribute a new, global value to the discussion by demonstrating the 'diverse universe' of helping professions off ers.

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Social Work in Eastern Europe

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Reaching without outreaching: A comparative policy study of EU member states policy agenda on youth unemployment

Reaching without outreaching: A comparative policy study of EU member states policy agenda on youth unemployment

Social Work and Labor Migration: The Impact of Maternal Migration on Families and Children Left Behind

Sharing Experience and Learning in Doing International Research: The Case of the Erasmus Mundus ADVANCES Program

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