Abstract

Social work faculty regularly encourage students to engage in policy practice, often structuring course assignments to allow students to apply their social work knowledge and skills to the policy process. Faculty members, as part of the expectation that they engage in community service, often are themselves involved with community groups, agencies, organisations and government bodies to develop, revise and evaluate policies to promote social and economic justice. Less is known about how social work education programmes, as organisations, work to fulfil the profession’s expectations and mandates regarding promoting more just policies and programmes. Hence, qualitative data were collected from twenty participants, forty-nine documents and more than seventy email conversations to understand the experience of School of Social Work at Addis Ababa University. The School’s experience offers an example of how an educational enterprise using its faculty members can be involved in policy practice. This article identifies various activities in which the School has been involved over the past fifteen years as well as the challenges and benefits of being engaged in these forms of policy practice.

中文翻译：

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在政策过程中可见：亚的斯亚贝巴大学社会工作学院的经验

摘要

社会工作教师定期鼓励学生从事政策实践，经常安排课程作业，以使学生将其社会工作知识和技能应用到政策制定过程中。作为对参与社区服务的期望的一部分，教职工经常自己参与社区团体，机构，组织和政府机构，以制定，修订和评估促进社会和经济正义的政策。人们对社会工作教育计划作为一个组织如何努力实现行业对促进更公正的政策和计划的期望和任务所知甚少。因此，从20位参与者中收集了定性数据，四十九个文件和七十多个电子邮件对话，以了解亚的斯亚贝巴大学社会工作学院的经历。学校的经验提供了一个示例，说明使用其教职员工的教育企业如何参与政策实践。本文确定了该学院在过去十五年中参与的各种活动，以及参与这些形式的政策实践的挑战和收益。