Contested Learning In Welfare Work

Author : Peter H. Sawchuk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107034671
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contested Learning in Welfare Work written by Peter H. Sawchuk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the field of cultural historical psychology and the sociologies of skill and labour process, Contested Learning in Welfare Work offers a detailed account of the learning lives of state welfare workers in Canada as they cope, accommodate, resist and flounder in times of heightened austerity. Documented through in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis, Peter Sawchuk shows how the labour process changes workers, and how workers change the labour process, under the pressures of intensified economic conditions, new technologies, changing relations of space and time, and a high-tech version of Taylorism. Sawchuk traces these experiences over a seven-year period that includes major work reorganisation and the recent economic downturn. His analysis examines the dynamics between notions of de-skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling, as workers negotiate occupational learning and changing identities.

Author : Peter Harold Sawchuk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107344693
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contested Learning in Welfare Work written by Peter Harold Sawchuk and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of the lives of state welfare workers as they accommodate, resist and flounder in times of austerity.

Author : Carmela R. Nanton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119248159
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tectonic Boundaries: Negotiating Convergent Forces in Adult Education written by Carmela R. Nanton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much like how tectonic plates interact, this volume explores the convergent, divergent, and transforming interaction of multiple forces pressing against adult contemporary education. Presenting multiple perspectives and environments, topics covered include: possibilities and requirements for change that will be needed in curriculum, philosophy, programs and practice, strategies for negotiating the interactive boundaries of a dynamic, complex, fluid global environment, and case studies and examples from theory, pedagogy, technology, healthcare, workplace, society, and policies. This is the 149th volume of the Jossey Bass series New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education. Noted for its depth of coverage, it explores issues of common interest to instructors, administrators, counselors, and policymakers in a broad range of education settings, such as colleges and universities, extension programs, businesses, libraries, and museums.

Author : Susan E. Roche
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Boundaries in Social Work Education written by Susan E. Roche and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the discourse of cooperative learning to new territories. Susan E. Roche, Marty Dewees, and company take a critically reflective look at educational and global human rights philosophy, as well as social work's commitment to social justice. In liberatory teaching and learning, social work educators engage the mechanisms of privilege, power, and authority that inhabit the academic world no less than the practice world. The authors place social work education within a global framework and develop their postmodern educational philosophy around a set of five liberatory principles. These principles question the hierarchies and status-based roles and identities found in social work classrooms and field practica. BSW, MSW, and doctoral educators and students will find helpful case examples illustrating the principles at work. In the final section, the authors discuss the challenges of liberatory education as well as strategies to address them.

Author : Mark Considine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019874370X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting Welfare to Work written by Mark Considine and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting Welfare to Work traces the radical reform of the Australian, UK, and Dutch public employment services systems. Starting with major changes from 1998, this book examines how each national system has moved from traditional public services towards more privately provided and market-based methods. Each of these three countries developed innovative forms of contracting-out and complex incentive regimes to motivate welfare clients and to control the agencies charged with helping them. The Australian system pioneered the use of large, national contracts for services to all unemployed jobseekers. By the end of our study period this system was entirely outsourced to private agencies. Meanwhile the UK elected a form of contestability under Blair and Cameron, culminating in a new public-private financing model known as the 'Work Programme'. The Dutch had evolved their far more complex system from a traditional public service approach to one using a variety of specific contracts for private agencies. These innovations have changed welfare delivery and created both opportunities and new constraints for policy makers. Getting Welfare to Work tells the story of these bold policy reforms from the perspective of street-level bureaucrats. Interviews and surveys in each country over a fifteen year period are used to critically appraise this central pillar of the welfare state. The original data analysed in Getting Welfare to Work provides a unique comparative perspective on three intriguing systems. It points to new ways of thinking about modes of governance, system design, regulation of public services, and so-called activation of welfare clients. It also sheds light on the predicament of third sector organisations that contract to governments through competitive tenders with precise performance monitoring, raising questions of 'mission drift'.

Author : Michael J. Austin
Publisher : Sage Publications (CA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supervision as Collaboration in the Human Services written by Michael J. Austin and published by Sage Publications (CA). This book was released on 2004 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key aspects of a learning organization & the process of organizational learning are explored in this volume as they apply across a variety of human services, including social, mental health, health, & aging.

Author : Cristina Viviana Groeger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674259157
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Education Trap written by Cristina Viviana Groeger and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why—contrary to much expert and popular opinion—more education may not be the answer to skyrocketing inequality. For generations, Americans have looked to education as the solution to economic disadvantage. Yet, although more people are earning degrees, the gap between rich and poor is widening. Cristina Groeger delves into the history of this seeming contradiction, explaining how education came to be seen as a panacea even as it paved the way for deepening inequality. The Education Trap returns to the first decades of the twentieth century, when Americans were grappling with the unprecedented inequities of the Gilded Age. Groeger’s test case is the city of Boston, which spent heavily on public schools. She examines how workplaces came to depend on an army of white-collar staff, largely women and second-generation immigrants, trained in secondary schools. But Groeger finds that the shift to more educated labor had negative consequences—both intended and unintended—for many workers. Employers supported training in schools in order to undermine the influence of craft unions, and so shift workplace power toward management. And advanced educational credentials became a means of controlling access to high-paying professional and business jobs, concentrating power and wealth. Formal education thus became a central force in maintaining inequality. The idea that more education should be the primary means of reducing inequality may be appealing to politicians and voters, but Groeger warns that it may be a dangerous policy trap. If we want a more equitable society, we should not just prescribe more time in the classroom, but fight for justice in the workplace.

Author : Ross VeLure Roholt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Youthhood, Crafting Democratic Citizens written by Ross VeLure Roholt and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Zastrow
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780534608477
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare written by Zastrow and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Workbook with chapter summaries and experiential exercises.

Author : Joel Blau
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195385268
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy written by Joel Blau and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition deploys its distinctive model of how policies develop to include an analysis of the social policy initiatives of the Obama administration. With more graphics, updated charts, and sidebars to highlight main points, this book explains the evolution of US social policy.