Social Work Education podcast

In this episode, we will examine the trajectory of social work education in Spain, and we will also focus on a selected article from the Social Work Education Journal, the affiliated journal of the EASSW. This episode’s guests are: Dr Inés Martínez-Herrero, Social Work Lecturer, Social Work Department, National University of Distance Education, SpainDr Emilio Gómez-Ciriano, Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Castilla la Mancha, SpainDr Jesus Pérez-Viejo, Associate Professor, Social Work Department, National University of Distance Education, SpainDr. Sharlotte Tusasiirwe, Associate Professor, Western Sydney University, Australia Reading list:Boryczcko,M., Novicky, T. and Gomez-Ciriano, E.J. (2023) Postcolonial Europe and its premises for decolonization. In M. Madew, M. Boryczko and M. Lusk (Eds) Decolonized approaches to Human Rights and social Work. Springer. Pp 121-147Gómez-Ciriano, E.J and Barciela, S. (2024) Social work and promoting human rights: Reflections on the situation of migrants and refugees in the Western Mediterranean and West African routes in P. Dankova et al. (Eds) Transnational mobility and externalization of EU borders. Lexington Books. Pp 149-169.Gómez-Ciriano, E.J. (2023) The contribution of social work research to promote migration and asylum policies in Europe in E.J Gomez Ciriano, E. Cabiati and S. Dedotsi (eds) Migration and social work: approaches, visions and challenges. Policy Press. Pp 5-25.Martínez-Herrero, M. I. (2023). Social assistance in Franco’s fascist Spain (1939–75): a history of social control, family segregation and stolen babies. In Ioakimidis and Wyllie (eds) Social Work’s Histories of Complicity and Resistance. Policy Press. Pp 109-120.Méndez-Bonito Zorita, P., (2005). The history of social work education in Spain: Does harmonisation make sense?. Portularia, V(1), pp. 223-235. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=161017272010Pérez-Eransus, B., and Martínez-Virto, L. (2020). Social work education in Spain: evaluation and challenges for a new generation of social workers. Social WorkEducation, 39(6), 750–764. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2020.1724931

In this episode, we will examine the trajectory of social work education in post-communist countries, located in Eastern Europe, and we will also focus on a selected article from the Social Work Education Journal, the affiliated journal of the EASSW. With:- Prof. Nino Žganec, University of Zagreb, Croatia- Prof. Florin Lazar, University of Bucharest, Romania- Prof Darja Zaviršek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia- Dr. Joy Swanson Ernst, Wayne State University School of Social Work, Detroit, United States of AmericaReading list for the podcast:Swanson Ernst, J (2024) Historical content in the social work curriculum: the value of local history, Social Work Education, 43:1, 174-185, DOI: 10.1080/02615479.2022.2098944 Opačić, A., Žganec, N. (2021): Challenges for social work education in Croatia: Lessons from a post-socialist context in Laging, M., Žganec, N. (eds.): Social work education in Europe. Traditions and transformations, Springer, pp. 137-151 Žganec, N., Berc, G. & Milić Babić, M. (2022): Integrating Social Work with Human Rights in Croatia: A Long Way to Mutual Recognition in Krasniqi, V., McPherson, J. (eds.): Human Rights in this Age of Uncertainty, Springer, pp. 35-59 Lazăr, F (2021) The revival of Romanian social work education and its prospects. In Zganec N. & Laging M. (eds.) Social Work Education in Europe: Traditions and Transformations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69701-3_10. Lazăr, F.(2020) Rebuilding Romanian social work education after 1989 – benefits and constraints from European collaboration. In Lorenz W., Havrdová Z., Matoušek O. (eds) European Social Work After 1989. European Social Work Education and Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45811-9_6. Zaviršek, Darja. Engendering social work education under state socialism in Yugoslavia. British Journal of Social Work, June 2008, vol. 38, no 4, pp. 734-750. Zaviršek, Darja. Gender, welfare, and social work education under communism in Slovenia. In: Buchanan, Ann (ed.). Social work: major themes in health and social welfare, (Major themes in health and social welfare). London; New York: Routledge, 2008, Vol. I, pp. 143-152.