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Biografisk notat
Professor Sarah Banks is Co-director of the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action at Durham University. She has a background in community development and previously worked in the voluntary sector and local authority social services. Her research interests include professional ethics, community development, community-based participatory research and work with young people."Politically committed...accessible to a wide audience and gives a satisfying contribution to the debate about social work ethics." Research, policy and planning "Taking a radical stance has never been more important in social work. This most timely and innovative series of internationally renowned authors makes a significant contribution to advancing a new politics of social work." Professor Stephen Webb, Chair in Social Work, Glasgow Caledonian University
Series Editors’ Introduction;
Reclaiming social work ethics: challenging the new public management ~ lead essay by Sarah Banks;
A roadmap for social work ethics: reflections and a proposal ~ response by Frederic G. Reamer;
Contextualising the ‘ethics boom’ ~ response by Stephen Cowden;
Reframing social work ethics through a political ethic of care and social justice lens ~ response by Vivienne Bozalek;
‘Managerialism’: challenging the new orthodoxy ~ response by Chris Beckett;
Ethical practice in an unethical environment ~ response by Michael Reisch;
Social work ethics and social justice: the growing gap ~ response by Fumihito Ito;
Working in the spaces between care and control ~ response by Merlinda Weinberg;
A Marxist perspective ~ response by Paul Blackledge;
Reflections on the responses to ‘Reclaiming social work ethics’ ~ concluding remarks by Sarah Banks;
References
- provides a fresh approach to social work teaching and practice
- part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series, which offers the reader a debate piece on 6 key topics in social work
- provides views that are out of the mainstream, encouraging challenging and provocative interpretations of social welfare and social work developments
- this volume's lead article emphasises the importance of reclaiming professional ethics for social work, and outlines a preliminary framework for a situated ethics of social justice.