Summer Institute Rome

Module 2: Social work in Italy, Peru, Korea, the Czech Republic, and the United States

Social work in Italy, Peru, Korea, the Czech Republic, and the United States


This lesson will focus on the following questions:


  • How is social work defined within specific countries?

  • What is different?

  • What is the same?


Readings:


Bertotti, T. (2021). Social work education in Italy: Backwards and forwards in establishing the social work discipline. In Social Work Education in Europe (pp. 111-135). Springer, Cham.


Castro-Santos, L. A. Social work in Latin America. Journal of the Brazilian Sociological Society, 2(1), 92-104.


Gulová, L., & Střelec, S. (2019). Social work in the Czech Republic–Origin and role in education: Czech-Polish Historical and Pedagogical Journal, 11(2), p. 99.


Han, I. Y., & Lim, J. W. (2014). The current status and future challenges of social work education in South Korea. In C. Noble, H. Strauss, B. Littlechild Global social work (pp. 155-168). Sydney University Press.


National Association of Social Work. (2020). Social workers: This is who we are. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x76h8X8RmhA


University of Southern Mississippi. (2018). What is social work? Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQjtGCpdd70


Assignment:


  • Describe social work in your country of origin, including opportunities and challenges, and how it compares to another country (see the assignment description in the attached PDF for more details).  

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