Revitalising Critical Reflection in Contemporary Social Work Research, Practice and Education

Christian Franklin Svensson is a Ph.D. in anthropology and social innovation. Using ethnographic approaches and policy analysis, he has a focus on issues of welfare, civil society, social change, migration, inclusion, cross-sectoral cooperation and community. From several years of teaching and supervision, Svensson is firmly rooted in quality assurance and curriculum development in international programmes. He has been peer-reviewer for a number of journals including The Danish Anthropological Association, South Asia Research Journal, South Asian Development, Social Work and Society, The Inclusion Journal and VOLUNTAS. Svensson is an appointed external expert with the European Union Institutions; a UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab expert; and an associate member of the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, University of Cambridge. Pia Ringø is Ph.D. in sociology and social work. She is associate professor of social work at the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Denmark. She is the research manager of the research group SOSA addressing the specialised social work in the field of psychiatry and disability research. Pia Ringø has methodological competencies in method, theory and concept development within the social sciences and social work. Her scientific focus is on theory of science, realism, integrated analytical models and development of scientific models as ways to analyse the interaction between politics, management, knowledge and practice.

0.Preface. 1.Critical Reflection: Concepts and forms of knowledge in a global world. 2.The sociology of knowledge: Ideology, critical reflection and the consequences of capitalism to social work. 3.Critique in social work research: Arguments for a synthesis between critical realism and German critical theory. 4.Critical reflections on international social work research: Beyond South/North divides. 5.Healing past wounds or addressing the future? Critical social work in post-war settings. 6.Experiences of ethnic discrimination: potentials for social change in Taiwan. 7.The Use of Reflective Processes and Teams in the Practice of Supervision: A critical glance. 8. Mature Law in the Nordic countries: Critical perspectives on social work in the context of public authority. 9.From experimentalism to governance tool: Local community work caught between emancipative goals and the sanctioning state. 10.Learning from user perspectives: Critical reflections in the frontline of employment oriented social work. 11.Applying a salutogenic and interactional approach to critically reflect on perspectives on disability in social work. 12.Integration is a two-way process: Policy and social intervention among migrants. 13.Knowing risk: Why we need an empirical quantitative critique in social work and research. 14.Decision making and risk in social work: Critical reflections on digital technologies. 15.Revitalising the concept of surface and depth: An analytical tool for critical reflection. 16.The promise of social change: Critical reflections on social innovation.