Radical Challenges for Social Work Education

This book is full of analysis and ideas about how social work education can confront the individualising and often blaming form of social work that neoliberalism ushered in four decades ago.

Author: Jane Fenton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01/29/2024
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.69h x 6.85w x 0.37d
ISBN: 9781032218199

About the Author

Jane Fenton is Reader in Social Work at the University of Dundee, UK. She practised as a criminal justice social worker in Scotland for approximately 11 years before moving to the university in 2006. Her research and scholarship interests are in the newer generations of social work students; the effects of neoliberalism generationally and on practice; free expression and debate in the social work classroom; radical social work; and promoting attention to poverty and inequality by reclaiming liberal values for social work education. She has authored numerous journal articles, chapters, and two books: Values in Social Work and Social Work for Lazy Radicals.