Social work education in post-communist countries
In this episode, we will examine the trajectory of social work education in post-communist countries, located in Eastern Europe, and we will also focus on a selected article from the Social Work Education Journal, the affiliated journal of the EASSW. With: - Prof. Nino Žganec, University of Zagreb, Croatia - Prof. Florin Lazar, University of Bucharest, Romania - Prof Darja Zaviršek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia - Dr. Joy Swanson Ernst, Wayne State University School of Social Work, Detroit, United States of America Reading list for the podcast: Swanson Ernst, J (2024) Historical content in the social work curriculum: the value of local history, Social Work Education, 43:1, 174-185, DOI: 10.1080/02615479.2022.2098944 Opačić, A., Žganec, N. (2021): Challenges for social work education in Croatia: Lessons from a post-socialist context in Laging, M., Žganec, N. (eds.): Social work education in Europe. Traditions and transformations, Springer, pp. 137-151 Žganec, N., Berc, G. & Milić Babić, M. (2022): Integrating Social Work with Human Rights in Croatia: A Long Way to Mutual Recognition in Krasniqi, V., McPherson, J. (eds.): Human Rights in this Age of Uncertainty, Springer, pp. 35-59 Lazăr, F (2021) The revival of Romanian social work education and its prospects. In Zganec N. & Laging M. (eds.) Social Work Education in Europe: Traditions and Transformations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69701-3_10. Lazăr, F.(2020) Rebuilding Romanian social work education after 1989 – benefits and constraints from European collaboration. In Lorenz W., Havrdová Z., Matoušek O. (eds) European Social Work After 1989. European Social Work Education and Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45811-9_6. Zaviršek, Darja. Engendering social work education under state socialism in Yugoslavia. British Journal of Social Work, June 2008, vol. 38, no 4, pp. 734-750. Zaviršek, Darja. Gender, welfare, and social work education under communism in Slovenia. In: Buchanan, Ann (ed.). Social work: major themes in health and social welfare, (Major themes in health and social welfare). London; New York: Routledge, 2008, Vol. I, pp. 143-152. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
