This article considers how lecturers can use human rights education as a core element of preparing students for professional social work practice. This paper is based on a symposium held at the EASSW conference in Madrid 2019 which was hosted by members of an interest group of lecturers, from Belgium, …

Lex Veldboer waarschuwt dat politisering van het sociaal werk ten koste gaat van de balanceerkunst die voor de alledaagse praktijk nodig is. Zijn oproep tot professionele realpolitik gaat echter voorbij aan waar sociaal werk in essentie om draait. Sociaal werk is meer dan louter laveren en balanceren, …

Social work policy and practice all over the world continue to face the impact of the neoliberal agenda. Similarly, social work education has been subject to the economic and political changes, with an increasing emphasis on a discourse of ‘evidence-based practice’. However, it is the core of social …