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  • Beyond Racial Divides

    Ethnicities in Social Work Practice

    by Lena Dominelli, Walter Lorenz, Haluk Soydan ...
    Series series Contemporary Social Work Studies
    Written by leading authorities in the field, this challenging book addresses complex issues of ethnicity and racial discrimination in ways that encourage further debate and analysis. Its main theme is that social work has been and remains, deeply implicated in racist policies and practices that have been locality specific, but that racism is also recognizable across borders as a phenomenon that ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Challenging Child Protection

    New Directions in Safeguarding Children

    by Brigid Daniel, Andrew Cooper, Kay Tisdall, Jason Hart, Trevor Spratt, Tarja Pösö, Fiona Arney, Stewart McDougall, Leah Bromfield, Walter Lorenz, Heather Montgomery, Tim Dare, Melissa O’Donnell ...
    Series series Research Highlights in Social Work
    Challenging Child Protection offers a ground-breaking new perspective which will illuminate and improve the professional understanding and practice of social workers and child protection workers.Taking a fresh look at the principles underlying child protection, this book provides a thought-provoking analysis of the evidence base which underpins professional understanding and intervention. It ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Two Sides of Innovation

    Creation and Destruction in the Evolution of Capitalist Economies

    Edited by Guido Buenstorf, Uwe Cantner, Horst Hanusch, Michael Hutter, Hans-Walter Lorenz, Fritz Rahmeyer ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This volume is devoted to innovation with a special focus on its two sides, namely creation and destruction, and on its role in the evolution of capitalist economies. The first part of the book looks at innovation and its effects on economic performance, addressing issues of motives, behavioral rules under uncertainty, actor properties, and technology characteristics. The second part concentrates ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Enhancing Professionality Through Reflectivity in Social and Health Care

    Edited by Walter Lorenz, Zuzana Havrdová ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book discusses complex motivational conditions and strategies on macro, meso, and micro levels promoting reflectivity in interpersonal professional practice.The increasing demands made on practitioners in social and health services, as illustrated by the COVID-19 pandemic, can lead to great uncertainty over how to find "the right response" to complex expressions of need and how to account for ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • European Social Work After 1989

    East-West Exchanges Between Universal Principles and Cultural Sensitivity

    Edited by Walter Lorenz, Zuzana Havrdová, Oldřich Matoušek ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a unique analysis of the learning derived from East-West contacts in social work and reflects on the discipline's inalienable trans-national dimensions, of high actuality in the face of the re-emergence of nationalisms. The fundamental transformations in Europe subsequent to the revolutions of 1989 had a profound impact on social work in terms of raising sharply the profession’s ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Private Troubles or Public Issues?

    Challenges for Social Work Research

    Edited by Walter Lorenz, Ian Shaw ...
    This book bears testimony to the value of a progressive form of academisation of social work education in most European countries, including former communist countries which had to re-establish social work education. It also manifests the confidence of contributors in belonging to a serious academic discipline, and the fruitfulness of bringing research ‘home’ from neighbouring disciplines such as ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Ecosocial Work and Sustainability Transitions

    Theories, Methodologies and Practices

    by Jérôme Schoenmaeckers, Amy Shackelford, Rebecca Conway, Svenja Fischbach, Jef Peeters, Kati Närhi, Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö, Yannis Perifanos, Gianinna Muñoz-Arce, Walter August Lorenz ...
    Series series Research in Social Work
    Sustainable development and ecosocial work have become one of the most dynamic global debates of the social work profession. How can social work contribute to the sustainability transitions of European societies?Bringing together a diverse group of researchers from around the world, this book offers an analysis of the main theoretical insights on ecosocial work, the contribution of social work ... Read more

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    International Perspectives

    Edited by Anne Karin Larsen, Vishanthie Sewpaul, Grete Oline Hole ...
    Participation is a key community work method and this text, written by an international selection of authors, covers innovative approaches in community based education and practice. Including real-life case studies of participatory practice, it offers new definitions of community work, organisation and development and will challenge and inspire all those involved in community work practice and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Human Rights and Social Work

    Towards Rights-Based Practice

    by Jim Ife, Karen Soldatić, Linda Briskman ...
    Human Rights and Social Work: Towards Rights-Based Practice helps students and practitioners understand how human rights concepts underpin the social work profession and inform their practice. This book examines the three generations of human rights and the systems of oppression that prevent citizens from participating in society as equals. It explores a range of topics, from ethics and ethical ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

    The Reflective Professional

    by Greg Light, Roy Cox, Susanna C. Calkins ...
    ′This book provides teachers in higher education with what they need - a compelling framework for improving student learning. It combines a comprehensive synthesis of the latest research on learning and teaching with practical strategies for implementing it in their classrooms′ - Professor Ken Bain, Author of What the Best College Teachers Do, Vice Provost for Instruction, Montclair State ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Adaptation of Western Economics by Russian Universities

    Intercultural Travel of an Academic Field

    by Tatiana Suspitsyna ...
    This book examines an intercultural translation of economics as an academic field from Western to post-Soviet university settings. ... Read more

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  • Wicked Problems in Public Policy

    Understanding and Responding to Complex Challenges

    by Brian W. Head ...
    This is an open access book.This book offers the first overview of the ‘wicked problems’ literature, often seen as complex, open-ended, and intractable, with both the nature of the ‘problem’ and the preferred ‘solution’ being strongly contested. It contextualises the debate using a wide range of relevant policy examples, explaining why these issues attract so much attention.There is an increasing ... Read more

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