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Hans Swärd. Foto: Mikael Risedal

Hans Swärd

Professor emeritus

Hans Swärd. Foto: Mikael Risedal

Social Work Programmes in the Social Democratic Welfare Regime

Author

  • Anna Meeuwisse
  • Hans Swärd

Summary, in English

Abstract in Undetermined
In this article we examine the emergence of social worker training in the Nordic countries and discuss the possible effects that the social democratic welfare regime has had on such training. We also discuss the development in recent decades of the academisation of the training and the establishment of social work as a subject of research and teaching. The early history of social worker education is based on archival material, national inquiries and secondary sources. Our presentation of the recent history of social work education is based on the responses to a questionnaire sent to teachers of social work in 33 Nordic social work programmes, and on a survey of course syllabi and prospectuses. It is also based on the reading lists for the social work courses in these programmes.

Department/s

  • School of Social Work

Publishing year

2009

Language

English

Pages

365-374

Publication/Series

International Journal of Social Welfare

Volume

18

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Social Work

Keywords

  • social democratic regime
  • Nordic schools of social work
  • models of social work education
  • social work as an academic subject

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1369-6866