Social Work in XXI Century St. Challenges for Academic and Professional Training.

Intro -- Index -- Presentation. Social work and rights -- Introduction -- Social work in Australia: context, content and challenges -- An overview of social work education in Canada -- Social work in the Czech Republic: conformist or critically engaged -- Social work education in Hong Kong: professionalisation and its challenges in the XXI St. Century -- Education for social work in Denmark: is social work in Denmark at a crossroad: devoted to human rights, social justice and social care or to governmentality in a NPM perspective? -- Training in social work in Spain. From academic to professional -- Social work education in the United States: from occupation to profession -- Social work education in Finland -- Social trainings in the XXI Century in France. Transformations, challenges, stakes and prospects -- Social work in the XXI Century: challenges to professional education in India -- Social work education in Indonesia: challenges and opportunity -- Social work in England: regulation, competition and change -- University social work education in Italy -- Social work education in Lithuania: struggling for professional identity -- Social work in Aotearoa New Zealand: biculturalism and professionalism in social work education -- Social services in Portugal: training for profession -- Social work in the Twenty-First century aging of the field? -- Professional social work in Venezuela: challenges for training and professional practice in the 21st century.

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