De-mythologizing Social Work Education: Ivan Illich Revisited
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Social work presents itself as a social justice profession, being concerned with the empowerment and liberation of people. Here, we argue that social work as it is instituted in programs of higher education, shares the same assumptions of need, scarcity, and la Technique as the society it criticizes, and is an iatrogenic radical monopoly. We critique these assumptions in relation to social work and social work education and then discuss the Illichian concept of conviviality on the basis of which we make suggestions for reform.
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De-mythologizing Social Work Education: Ivan Illich Revisited
In: Beijing International Review of EducationSearch for other papers by Clive Baldwin in
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Abstract
Social work presents itself as a social justice profession, being concerned with the empowerment and liberation of people. Here, we argue that social work as it is instituted in programs of higher education, shares the same assumptions of need, scarcity, and la Technique as the society it criticizes, and is an iatrogenic radical monopoly. We critique these assumptions in relation to social work and social work education and then discuss the Illichian concept of conviviality on the basis of which we make suggestions for reform.
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