Questions we care about (objectives) This study contributes to the body of knowledge of entrepreneurial educators’ strategies to work towards gender inclusion in entrepreneurial education (EE). By illustrating how gender stereotypes and gender bias are constructed and reconstructed in EE. An important …

The knowledge base for Social Work is strengthening. Underpinning of Social Work deriving from scientific research is necessary given the growing complexity of the work and its context. How this research should be conducted and to what type of outcomes it must lead, is part of an ongoing debate. In the …

This article applies insights of the contextual theory and therapy, developed by Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy, to the body of knowledge and practice of social work. Social work and contextual therapy share their focus on justice. In social work, it is mainly elaborated as social justice, placed in the discourse …

Background and purpose Within Northwest European Welfare states, there is a growing need for all social work professions to substantiate their work with research. The earliest notions of social street work origins from the end of the18th century by the British Salavation Army (Mikkonen et al., 2007). …

This article is about a research project focused on the development of a common knowledge base for social work education in the Netherlands. Recent substantial changes in society and social policy were the reason for a reconsideration of the educational content of social work education. A great urgency …

Professional youth workers and their organizations pursue further improvement of quality and transparency in their work. Political developments require to demonstrate the added value of professional youth work to active citizenship. Due to the complex, dynamic and interactive nature of professional youth …

Social policy in the Netherlands New challenges for social professionals National innovation program for social work education Generic body of knowledge

Met de ingrijpende veranderingen in de verzorgingsstaat doen overheden een sterker beroep op burgerkracht: het vermogen van burgers om op eigen initiatief –vaak met hulp van de overheid en sociale professionals – zelf maatschappelijke problemen aan te pakken. Actief burgerschap behelst het (leren) deelnemen …

Full text via link. De Internationale Federatie van Sociaal Werkers (IFSW) karakteriseert sociaal werk terloops maar expliciet als een professie. In de oorspronkelijk Engelstalige omschrijving van het beroep wordt namelijk gesproken van 'the social work profession'. Ook in Nederland presenteren sociale …

Bij ORO (een instelling voor mensen met een beperking) is het voor de dramatherapeute, die daar werkzaam is, lastig om drama methodisch in te zetten bij een ontwikkelingsniveau van nul tot anderhalf jaar ( ernstig verstandelijk beperkte). Ze ervaart dat ze al snel middelen en methodes van andere disciplines …