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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
social sciences
Empowerment and globalisation in a Nordic social work education context
International Journal of Social Welfare, Volume 17, No. 3, Year 2008
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Description
The Nordic countries have been experiencing paradigm shifts from a focus on problems, pathology and deficits to more strengths-based, capacity-building and inclusive approaches, especially in the field of child welfare. This article describes joint Nordic (Nordplus) Master level courses that have been introduced to promote a more inclusive and empowering way of working with children and families. The overall theme of the Nordplus project is democratisation of child welfare work. The project includes three separate courses: (i) Empowerment and family decision making in child welfare; (ii) Strengths and solution oriented child welfare work; (iii) Children, youth and participation. The project brought together masters students from the Nordic countries and professional academics from the Nordic countries, South Africa and Australia. This article describes and problematises the learning process and the outcomes of the project. An important aim of the project was to interrogate the relationship between the global and the local. © Journal compilation © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare.
Authors & Co-Authors
Johansson, Ing Marie
Sweden, Gothenburg
Göteborgs Universitet
Sewpaul, Vishanthie
South Africa, Durban
University of Kwazulu-natal
Horverak, Sveinung
Norway, Bodo
Nord Universitet
Schjelderup, Liv
Norway, Stavanger
Universitetet I Stavanger
Omre, Cecilie
Norway, Stavanger
Universitetet I Stavanger
Børnholdt, Lis
Denmark, Esbjerg
Esbjerg Hospital
Statistics
Citations: 11
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1111/j.1468-2397.2008.00572.x
ISSN:
13696866
e-ISSN:
14682397
Research Areas
Maternal And Child Health
Study Locations
South Africa