[en] The new international agendas: what role for social work?

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  • Jim Ife University of Western Australia. Perth (Australia).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30827/tsg-gsw.v1i1.904

Palabras clave:

international social work, human rights, social justice, global warming, terrorism, culture

Resumen

If social work is to be truly international, it needs to address newly emerging international issues, specifically terrorism and global warming. Both of these raise profound implications for human rights and social justice, and hence social workers have significant contributions to make to addressing such issues. However to do so, social workers in western countries will need also to accept the loss of legitimacy of the western modernity, so that their theory and practice can be influenced by post-colonial writers and alternative knowledges and wisdoms from the global south, and from indigenous people. A number of curriculum proposals are made, with a view to developing more appropriate international social work education programs.

Si el trabajo social tiene que ser verdaderamente internacional, necesita dirigirse a los emergentes acontecimientos recientes, específicamente al terrorismo y al calentamiento global. Estos dos temas originan profundas implicaciones para los derechos humanos y la justicia social, y por ello, los trabajadores sociales tienen contribuciones significativas al respecto. Aún así, para poder hacer esto, los trabajadores sociales de los países occidentales necesitan aceptar la pérdida de legitimidad de la modernidad occidental, de forma que su teoría y práctica pueda ser influenciada por escritores postcoloniales y conocimientos y saberse alternativos del sur global y de las personas indígenas. Se realizan un número de propuestas curriculares con la perspectiva de desarrollar programas educativos internacionales en el trabajo social más apropiados

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Biografía del autor/a

Jim Ife, University of Western Australia. Perth (Australia).

Emeritus Professor Jim Ife has been Head of the Social Work Schools at The University of Western Australia and Curtin University (Perth). He was also the inaugural Head of the Centre for HumanRights Education at Curtin University. He has been Secretary of the Human Rights Commission ofIFSW. His books include Community Development (3rd ed. 2006), Rethinking Social Work (1997), HumanRights and Social Work (2nd ed. 2008) and Human Rights from Below (2010)

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Publicado

2010-06-04

Cómo citar

Ife, J. (2010). [en] The new international agendas: what role for social work?. Trabajo Social Global-Global Social Work, 1(1), 80–102. https://doi.org/10.30827/tsg-gsw.v1i1.904

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