Policy Press

Internationalizing Social Work Education

Insights From Leading Figures Across the Globe

By Gurid Aga Askeland and Malcolm Payne

Published

Jul 5, 2017

Page count

224 pages

ISBN

978-1447328704

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Jul 5, 2017

Page count

224 pages

ISBN

978-1447335276

Dimensions

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Jul 5, 2017

Page count

224 pages

ISBN

978-1447335283

Dimensions

Imprint

Policy Press
Internationalizing Social Work Education

Social work education has developed internationally over the past 50 years as part of wider processes of economic and cultural globalization. Diverse political and social events across the world have shaped social work and its education, leading to aims and methods that are shared and contested.

This book brings together, through 13 interviews and biographies, the lives, experiences and contributions of leading social work educators from Comoros, the Caribbean, India, Mexico, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States and the United Kingdom. Their receipt of IASSW’s Katherine Kendall Award recognized that they were at the forefront of establishing and securing social work education during this period of internationalization.

Exploring the aims and priorities of these leading social work educators, Askeland and Payne draw out a historical and contextual account of how social work education became widely adopted in different national and cultural environments. The Awardees’ diverse lives and professional experiences reveal the issues they faced, the paths they travelled and the prospects and threats confronting social work and its education more widely.

Gurid Aga Askeland is social work professor emerita at Diakonhjemmet University College, now VID Specialized University, Norway.

Malcolm Payne is a leading international social work writer and educator, with professorial roles at Manchester Metropolitan University and Kingston University, UK.

Part 1: International social work education: past and future

The changing contexts for international social work education

The awardees’ contribution reviewed

Issues for the future of international social work education

Part 2: International social work education: notable figures

Katherine A. Kendall (1910-2010): a brief biography

Armaity S. Desai, 1992

Herman D. Stein, 1994

Robin Huws Jones, 1996

Maria del Carmen Mendoza Rangel, 1998

Harriet Jakobsson, 2000

John Maxwell, 2002

Terry Hokenstad, 2004

Sven Hessle, 2006

Shulamit Ramon, 2008

Silvia M. Staub-Bernasconi, 2010

Lena Dominelli, 2012

Lynne Healy, 2014

Abye Tasse, 2016