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Working groups 2C. Women, Feminism and History of Social Work Women, Feminism and the History of Social Work
Working groups 2C. Women, Feminism and History of Social Work Women, Feminism and the History of Social Work | Women, Feminism and the History of Social Work |
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Research on the history of the welfare state has received new impetus with the procolomation of a social Europe. In this group researhchers in the field of women and history of welfare are united to produce new teaching modules that reflect this new research. The work of the group will focus on history ad practice of social work as a ‘meeting point ‘ of history of welfare and history of women. Especially innovative is the wide cover of both western and eastern European scholars in this field. The modules developed will be of use for university students taking women’s history and for students training to be social workers. Thus the bridge between vocational and professional traing on the one hand and scholarly research on the other hand is bridged. The group will work with the WG on urban space and WG on transnational citizenship.This working group is a continuation of Activity 1 B5 from ATHENA2. Social work as a discipline has been dominated by women from the throughout the twentieth century in all European countries. Social work education (either as academic education or as professional training) has thus been an important history of women’s higher education in Europe. The women’s movement in all parts of Europe (East and West, North and South) has shaped the first social work training. Especially before WWII, the international contacts of social workers allowed women from literally all regions of Europe to meet in international conferences. In recent times this tendency was continued in international networks of women exchanging knowledge about women’s health and sexuality. The working group will work with women’s centres that support women in issues that deal with sexuality. In this group, specialists in the field of gender and history of social work meet and continue developing teaching modules and teaching materials about the gender of the European history of women in social work. This module includes lectures (taped, digitised and live), printed material (including translations of historical material from diverse countries) and classroom assignments that address the role of women in developing social work between social policy and social action. The module will allow the dissemination of knowledge about women and educational history as well as feminist approaches of social work to be disseminated to schools for social work throughout – thus reaching a large group of European women. The participants in this activity will work with the ‘Network for historical studies of gender and social work’ (founded September 2001) with members in more than 20 European countries The work of this group is located in Output Area I: Curriculum development: forging links between education and research in a European dimension and Output Area III: Strengthening cooperation between academic and social and/or civil organizations addressing women or gender differences |