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Social Work: Critical Theory and Practice

John Solas
- 01 Dec 2003 - 
- Vol. 56, Iss: 4, pp 364-367
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This article is published in Australian Social Work.The article was published on 2003-12-01. It has received 69 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social network & Social philosophy.

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The quest for a universal social work: some issues and implications

TL;DR: The authors examines some of the major debates and issues involved in moves to generalise about social work across the globe, and suggests some directions for a flexible approach to find a flexible framework which allows for differences yet provides for accountability, responsiveness and connectivity.
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Revisiting the Knowledge Base of Social Work: A Framework for Practice

TL;DR: A particular feature of this paper is that it locates the knowledge that service users and carers bring to the encounter within the same framework as the knowledge demonstrated by social workers, other professionals and involved individuals.

Inequalities experienced by Gypsy and Traveller communities: A review, Equality and Human Rights Commission

TL;DR: Inequalities experienced by Gypsy and Traveller communities: A review, Equality and Human Rights Commission, University of Bristol, Buckinghamshire New University, Friends Families and Travellers, pp1-361 as mentioned in this paper.
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Diffraction or reflection? Sketching the contours of two methodologies in educational research

TL;DR: In this paper, the concepts of diffraction and reflection are defined and understood and discussed the methodological implicits of these two practices in educational and social science research methodology literature, concluding that there is still important conceptual work to be done putting reflection and diffraction in conversation with each other.
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Social Work Education and the Neo-Liberal Challenge: The US Response to Increasing Global Inequality

TL;DR: In this article, a "perfect storm" resulting from the political-economic changes accompanying globalization, dramatic demographic and cultural transformations in US society and rapid technological advances, has created unprecedented challenges for the social work profession and social work education.
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An introductory guide to post-structuralism and postmodernism

Madan Sarup
TL;DR: Lacan and psychoanalysis Derrida and deconstruction Foucault and the social sciences some currents within poststructuralism Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva - french feminist theories Lyotard and post-modernism Baudrillard and some cultural practices as discussed by the authors.
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The quest for a universal social work: some issues and implications

TL;DR: The authors examines some of the major debates and issues involved in moves to generalise about social work across the globe, and suggests some directions for a flexible approach to find a flexible framework which allows for differences yet provides for accountability, responsiveness and connectivity.
Journal ArticleDOI

Revisiting the Knowledge Base of Social Work: A Framework for Practice

TL;DR: A particular feature of this paper is that it locates the knowledge that service users and carers bring to the encounter within the same framework as the knowledge demonstrated by social workers, other professionals and involved individuals.
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Social Work and Received Ideas

TL;DR: Social Work and Received Ideas examines the language of both traditional and radical social work as forms of power, arguing that the will to help and care for people unintentionally results in new types of dependency, control and domination.