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Research In Spirituality, Religion, And Aging: An Emerging Area, Holly Nelson-Becker
Research In Spirituality, Religion, And Aging: An Emerging Area, Holly Nelson-Becker
Social Work: School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Other Works
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Technology And Groupwork: A Mandate And An Opportunity, Shirley Simon, Kahtleen W. Stauber
Technology And Groupwork: A Mandate And An Opportunity, Shirley Simon, Kahtleen W. Stauber
Social Work: School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Other Works
This paper addresses the relationship between social groupwork and technology. It discusses the evolution of online technology—how the technological revolution of the computer, the Internet, and mass access to new communication devices has impacted our lives with unprecedented speed and universality. It acknowledges the natural and understandable resistance of many skilled and renowned groupworkers to the use of these new modalities. It addresses the numerous benefi ts and challenges that technology brings, and the critical and timely need for groupworkers to make the conceptual shift to embrace these modalities. A case is made for groupworkers’ ability to take a leadership …
Predicting India’S Future: Does It Justify The Exportation Of Us Social Work Education?, Shweta Singh, Edward Gumz, Brenda Crawley
Predicting India’S Future: Does It Justify The Exportation Of Us Social Work Education?, Shweta Singh, Edward Gumz, Brenda Crawley
Social Work: School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Other Works
Current social work education in India reflects globalization priorities and tendencies of neo-colonialism that emulate curriculum priorities and duplicate content developed in countries like the USA. Social work education as implemented by countries like the USA, has limited success in transnational training of social workers and their ability to address emerging social problems and deep rooted structural imbalances within non-USA social contexts. Yet, the concept of the world being an emerging global village is used to justify and reaffirm the colonial goals of universal education and pedagogies within social work and its application to starkly different contexts, such as India. …