Abstract

The aim of this article is to outline a systemic lifecycle approach to social policy practice in social work. Evidence from the field of parenting and child welfare within an Irish context will be used for illustration. We avail of the work of Nancy Fraser to provide the theoretical framework. Drawing from approaches used mostly in public policy education, we demonstrate how social workers can engage at different stages of that policy lifecycle. In the discussion, we outline possibilities for and challenges to embedding social policy practice in social work education by reflecting on the processes of mediating between recognition, redistribution and representation. We argue that social policy practice should be a constant in social work. This approach should favour parity of participation and collaborative leadership from social work with regard to networking and promotion of different levels of participation with multiple ‘public spheres’. We conclude that the development of social policy practice work as a constant in social work will lead to greater ability to mediate between policies and the individuals affected by them. This would, we believe, enhance greatly the potential for social work to achieve its laudable but still illusory aims of promoting social justice.

中文翻译：

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社会工作中社会政策实践的系统性生命周期方法：爱尔兰儿童福利和育儿研究与实践的插图

摘要

本文的目的是概述社会工作中社会政策实践的系统性生命周期方法。来自爱尔兰的育儿和儿童福利领域的证据将用于说明。我们利用南希·弗雷泽的工作来提供理论框架。通过主要在公共政策教育中使用的方法，我们展示了社会工作者如何在该政策生命周期的不同阶段参与。在讨论中，我们通过反思承认，再分配和代表之间的调解过程，概述了将社会政策实践纳入社会工作教育的可能性和挑战。我们认为，社会政策实践应在社会工作中保持不变。这种方法应有利于社会工作的参与和协作领导的平等，以实现与多个“公共领域”的不同参与水平的联网和促进。我们得出的结论是，将社会政策实践工作发展为社会工作中的一项常识，将导致在政策与受其影响的个人之间进行调解的能力增强。我们认为，这将大大提高社会工作实现其值得称赞但仍然虚幻的促进社会正义目标的潜力。