APSS International Scholar Talk Series: Preparing for the 21st Century: An IASSW Perspective on Global Standards for Social Work Education
Conference / Lecture
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Date
03 May 2023
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Organiser
Department of Applied Social Sciences
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Time
14:30 - 16:00
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Venue
AG206, Core A, PolyU Map
Speaker
Professor Annamaria CAMPANINI
Dr Varoshini NADENSAN
Summary
Globally, social work education has experienced varied responses from academics, students, and practitioners. Social Work supervisors and practitioners alike have suggested a focused improvement in standards of education and training so that graduates demonstrate principled and innovative practice whilst adhering to the ideologies of social work. However, given the varied academic, social, economic, and political contexts of different societies, scholars have predicted these as hinderance factors to the implementation of global guidelines or standards. The value-add of the 2020 IASSW Global Standards for Social Work Education (2020) is that it is a means to assist many schools of social work to progressively aspire to a set of standards and guidelines that would see social work as an established, contemporary, advanced yet well-grounded discipline that supports and promotes social justice and human rights.
Keynote Speaker
Professor Annamaria CAMPANINI
President of International Association of the Schools of Social Work
Prof. Annamaria CAMPANINI, a social worker and family therapist, retired as a PhD professor at Milano Bicocca University, in Italy. Prof. CAMPANINI was the Coordinator of the Thematic network “EUSW-European Social Work" and was the President of European Association of Schools of Social Work from 2007 to 2011. She was elected as President of the International Association of the Schools of Social Work (IASSW) in 2016 and is currently in her second term as President at IASSW.
Dr Varoshini NADENSAN
Senior Lecture of Department of Social Work and Community Development, University of Johannesburg
Dr Varoshini NADESAN is the former Treasurer and President of the Association of South African Social Work Education Institutions. She is currently a consultant on the IASSW Global Standards (GS) and appointed the Convenor of the IASSW Task Force for the Global Standards for Social Work Education to develop IASSW GS online learning programme.
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