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Social Work Education in Europe

Traditions and Transformations

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Editors:
  1. Marion Laging

    1. Faculty of Social Work, Health Care, and Nursing Sciences, Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, Esslingen, Germany

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  2. Nino Žganec

    1. Faculty of Law, Department of Social Work, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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  • Presents comprehensive analyses of current social and socio-political transformations and their effects on social work and its educational structures
  • Identifies points of orientation for enhanced international cooperation and exchanges in social work education
  • Brings to light common ground and differences between European social work education systems

Part of the book series: European Social Work Education and Practice (ESWEP)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: Current Developments and Challenges Facing Social Work Education in Europe

    • Walter Lorenz
    Pages 1-17

  3. Development of Social Work Practice and Education in Cyprus

    • Christos Panagiotopoulos, Agamemnonas Zachariades
    Pages 19-42

  4. Research-Based Social Work Profession in the Finnish Welfare State

    • Sanna Lähteinen, Aila-Leena Matthies
    Pages 43-63

  5. Social Work Education and Training in France: A Long History of Being Energised by an Academic Discipline and International Social Work

    • Robert Bergougnan, Florence Fondeville
    Pages 65-88

  6. Social Work and Social Work Education in Germany: Development and Challenges in a Scientific and Practice-Based Profession and Its Education

    • Marion Laging, Peter Schäfer, Miriam Lorenz
    Pages 89-109

  7. Social Work Education in Italy: Backwards and Forwards in the Establishment of the Social Work Discipline

    • Teresa Bertotti
    Pages 111-135

  8. Challenges for Social Work Education in Croatia: Lessons from a Post-socialist Context

    • Ana Opačić, Nino Žganec
    Pages 137-151

  9. Social Work Education in Latvia: Post-crisis Impact and Development Perspectives

    • Lolita Vilka, Marika Lotko
    Pages 153-170

  10. Reconstruction of Social Work Education in the Netherlands

    • Raymond Kloppenburg, Peter Hendriks
    Pages 171-191

  11. The Revival of Romanian Social Work Education and Its Prospects

    • Florin Lazăr
    Pages 193-209

  12. Social Work Education in the United Kingdom

    • Steven Lucas, Hakan Acar
    Pages 211-231

  13. Correction to: Social Work and Social Work Education in Germany: Development and Challenges in a Scientific and Practice-Based Profession and Its Education

    • Marion Laging, Peter Schäfer, Miriam Lorenz
    Pages C1-C1
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About this book

This contributed volume provides an in-depth overview of current social and socio-political transformations in Europe and their effects on social work and its educational structures. It elucidates these transformations and structures at the individual level of ten different countries and goes on to elaborate a European perspective in this field. Readers gain insight into the variety in social work and its educational structures in Europe and, at the same time, readers receive starting points for the exchange of ideas, collaboration and further development in the individual countries and in Europe. 


The introduction outlines the current developments and challenges facing social work education in Europe, contextualizing the topics to be covered in the volume. Each chapter offers an individual country profile of social work, including an analysis of typical examples of different traditions of educational models for social work that, collectively, provideinsight into an overall "European model of education for social work". The countries selected represent all parts of Europe:
  • Finland
  • Latvia
  • Germany
  • United Kingdom
  • The Netherlands
  • France
  • Italy
  • Croatia
  • Romania
  • Cyprus

European Social Work Education: Traditions and Transformations is an essential resource – an up‐to‐date and differentiated inventory of social work education in Europe from a horizontal and vertical perspective – which describes fields of work and approaches that prepare students to practice social work, examines the degree of academization of the discipline and investigates its structures and conditions. Social workers and social work educators, researchers and practitioners will find this an engaging and useful text.

Reviews

“This book is a collective joint work that features ten European countries social work profiles: Finland, Latvia, Germany, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Croatia, Romania, and Cyprus and the development of the social work education and practices within their terrains. … interesting about this book is that no matter what context or history or education, Social Work Will always remain a core key for the development of society toward a sustainable, equal, and justice one.” (Gloria Abdo, European Journal of Social Work, Vol. 26 (3), 2023)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Social Work, Health Care, and Nursing Sciences, Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, Esslingen, Germany

    Marion Laging

  • Faculty of Law, Department of Social Work, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Nino Žganec

About the editors

Marion Laging, PhD is a qualified social worker with a specialization in education and many years of experience in several social work fields like the care for the elderly and for persons with disabilities, adult education and addiction care. After completing her PhD in 2005, she obtained the post of professor for social work at Esslingen University of Applied Sciences in Germany. Since 2008, she has been director of the Bachelor's degree course in social work and is especially committed to the internationalization of the degree. Since 2019, she has been the Vice President for Education and Advanced Studies at Esslingen University of Applied Sciences. As a board member of the German Association of Schools of Social Work and of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Schools of Social Work (EASSW), she is engaged in the further development of social work qualifications at the national and European levels. 


Nino Žganec, PhDwas born in Croatia, where he finished the study of Social Work at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. Since the beginning of his career he has worked as the faculty teacher in different positions – assistant professor, associate professor and full professor. The fields of his practical and scientific interest include community social work, ethics and human rights, organization of social services and international social work. He has published in different domestic and international journals and books, participated in several domestic and international scientific research projects in the fields of his interest, and presented many keynote speeches at domestic and international social work conferences. He has experience in political engagement as assistant minister and state secretary in Croatian Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare. During his term in the office comprehensive reform of the social care sector was launched. Since 2011 he participates in the executive committee of the European Association of Schools of Social Work (EASSW), and in 2015 he was elected as the president of this association for the mandate 2015-2019. In the same period he performed the duty of vice president of the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW). He was also elected as a member of the executive committee of the European Anti-Poverty Network as well as the president of the Croatian Anti-Poverty Network for the mandate 2014-2020. His teaching activities include graduate and postgraduate programmes including PhD programmes in different European countries.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Work Education in Europe

  • Book Subtitle: Traditions and Transformations

  • Editors: Marion Laging, Nino Žganec

  • Series Title: European Social Work Education and Practice

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69701-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69700-6Published: 08 May 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69703-7Published: 08 May 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69701-3Published: 07 May 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2662-2440

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-2459

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 231

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Ethics and Values in Social Work, Social Work, Education Policy, Education, general

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