How Does Globalization Affect Social Work Practice
Globalization is not the only factor that influenced social work practice and contributed to changes in social work education (it seems that the reader is expecting the “other factors” on your next sentence). In a general viewpoint, globalization is a process more related to information and economic exchanges between countries around the world. However, in a social work perspective it is much more than that. It concerns the social impact and transformation in a civilization. In Canadian society globalization is the cause for a transformation in social work practice, and also has a tremendous impact on social work education. This essay explores the connection between globalization and social work practice that led up to a transformation in
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The difficulty in defining and implementing anti-oppression methods in society has also, strongly contributed for social work practice transformation. According to Razack and Badwall (2006), there is a lack of anti-oppression methods to deal with diversity and complexity of Canadian society. Likewise, the gap between theory and practice in regards to social work anti-oppression methods is also pointed out by Gray and Fook (2004), as one of the causes for a social work transformation. Although I agree that the lack of anti-oppression methods and the gap between theory and practice in social work, it is important to highlight the fact that none of these conceptions were discussed if it wasn’t caused by the diversity and complexity associated with globalization. In “Ecologically-Oriented, Competence-Centered social work practice”, Malucio et.al. (1992), is emphasized the ecologically-oriented theory used on social work practice which is based on people’s surroundings and in their background, to underline the importance of a person environment on the acquired competences, as it affects humans functioning and development personal strategies to deal with several life challenges. These would never be debated if there were no diversity in Canadian society. The transformation caused by globalization urge the need to discuss about all the above concepts in order to improve the work of social
The difficulty in defining and implementing anti-oppression methods in society has also, strongly contributed for social work practice transformation. According to Razack and Badwall (2006), there is a lack of anti-oppression methods to deal with diversity and complexity of Canadian society. Likewise, the gap between theory and practice in regards to social work anti-oppression methods is also pointed out by Gray and Fook (2004), as one of the causes for a social work transformation. Although I agree that the lack of anti-oppression methods and the gap between theory and practice in social work, it is important to highlight the fact that none of these conceptions were discussed if it wasn’t caused by the diversity and complexity associated with globalization. In “Ecologically-Oriented, Competence-Centered social work practice”, Malucio et.al. (1992), is emphasized the ecologically-oriented theory used on social work practice which is based on people’s surroundings and in their background, to underline the importance of a person environment on the acquired competences, as it affects humans functioning and development personal strategies to deal with several life challenges. These would never be debated if there were no diversity in Canadian society. The transformation caused by globalization urge the need to discuss about all the above concepts in order to improve the work of social