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Care Management and the New Social Work: A Critical Analysis

Abstract: Michael Sheppard Whiting and Birch, £16.95, pp 318 ISBN 1 871177 77 4 Care management is central to the new approach to social care initiated by the 1989 White Paper, Caring for People. It separates providers of services from a new category of “care managers,” who are responsible for identifying individuals' needs, tailoring services to meet these needs, and monitoring and reviewing the provision of services. Care management thus aims to overcome the traditional difficulties of coordinating disparate services and increase the effectiveness of community care; but it presents social work with what …

¿modernización o democratización? la construcción de un nuevo sistema educativo entre el tardofranquismo y la democracia

Abstract: INTRODUCTION. The aim of this article is to offer a general discussion of two aspects which were pertinent in the construction of the educational reform of 1970 in Spain: the “top-down” modernization to be found in the discourse of the General Law of Education (LGE) and the “bottom-up” democratisation effected by the discourse and demands of teachers’ movements. METHOD. We outline the main characteristics of the world-systems paradigm in order to gain a proper appreciation of the LGE in that context. We analyse the discourse of the reform, and of the diagnostic report which preceded it, the White Paper of 1969, seeking out similarities with the discourses promulgated by the international organisations. In turn, we analyse publications that served to disseminate the educational ideas of the teachers’ movements. RESULTS. With the re-appropriation of social justice- and democracy-related discourse by the human capital train of thought, the concept of democratization came to be understood as the extension of schooling and equal access to the system for all, thereby limiting its more profound meaning. This is the concept embodied by the LGE of 1970 and the White Paper of 1969. In addition, teachers’ movements also fought for modernisation and democratization in the sphere of education, but with a completely different understanding of them, relating more to academic ideas of learning and the encouragement of popular participation both in educational policy-making and in the running of the schools. DISCUSSION. The design of the education system in the 1970s resulted from a complex web of local and international factors. Both the authorities and the social movements imposed concepts imported from abroad on Spain’s reality, adapting them to their own particular interests and values. The modernisation and democratisation of the education system were primarily shaped by the authorities; however, the social movements also undeniably left their mark.

History as Policy: Framing the debate on the future of Australia’s defence policy

Abstract: The fortieth anniversary of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre’s founding provided the opportunity to assemble many of Australia’s leading analysts and commentators to review some of the more significant issues that should define Australian defence policy. In the first 20 years after its establishment, SDSC scholars played a prominent role in shaping the ideas and aspirations that eventually found official expression in the 1987 Defence of Australia White Paper. This policy sustained a coherent balance between strategy, force structure and budgets for well over a decade. In recent years, however, the cumulative effects of the end of the Cold War and watershed events like the East Timor experience; the attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., in September 2001; the Bali bombings in October 2002; and the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 have fractured the former consensus on defence policy. These developments have eroded acceptance of the core judgements underpinning defence policy. This has led to a more tenuous connection between some recent major equipment acquisitions and declared policy. The unravelling of the consensus on the ‘defence of Australia’ policy means that we must again undertake a balanced, long-term assessment of the nature of Australia’s strategic interests. Only by doing so can we determine the kinds of armed forces that would contribute most effectively to protecting those interests. The papers collected in this volume are not informed by a common view of where Australia should focus its defence policy, but all address themes that should figure prominently in this difficult but essential task.