ABSTRACT

Urban diversity poses significant challenges for social work education in Europe’s major cities. These challenges manifest themselves in an accumulation of conflicts, inequalities, and fracture lines between individuals, networks, cultures, but also different groups and their institutional and political environments. This current challenge for the education of the next generation of social workers is also related to the rapidly changing environmental conditions and complexity of the urban diversity. Urban society is increasingly fragmented and diverse requiring new knowledges and tools to support future social work practice. The aim of the paper is to analyze the potential of Community Service Learning (CSL) as an approach that can be effectively applied in complex urban settings. CSL is an experiential learning format that integrates academic and experiential learning within a community service context. The participative training model identifies three basic principles: civic engagement, cooperative and multiple learning, and the importance of critical reflexive learning. This paper builds on existing CSL literature and represents ongoing discussions in an Erasmus+ project, exploring social work education in complex urban settings.

摘要

城市多样性对欧洲主要城市的社会工作教育提出了重大挑战。这些挑战体现在个人、网络、文化以及不同群体及其制度和政治环境之间的冲突、不平等和断裂线的积累上。当前对下一代社会工作者教育的挑战也与快速变化的环境条件和城市多样性的复杂性有关。城市社会日益分散和多样化，需要新的知识和工具来支持未来的社会工作实践。本文的目的是分析社区服务学习 (CSL) 作为一种可以有效应用于复杂城市环境的方法的潜力。CSL 是一种体验式学习形式，它在社区服务环境中整合了学术和体验式学习。参与式培训模式确定了三个基本原则：公民参与、合作和多元学习，以及批判性反思学习的重要性。本文以现有的 CSL 文献为基础，代表 Erasmus+ 项目中正在进行的讨论，探索复杂城市环境中的社会工作教育。