Radical Challenges for Social Work Education - Paperback

by Jane Fenton (Editor)

This book is full of analysis and ideas about how social work education can confront the individualising and often blaming form of social work that neoliberalism ushered in four decades ago.

Author Biography

Jane Fenton is Reader in Social Work at the University of Dundee, UK. She practised as a criminal justice social worker in Scotland for approximately 11 years before moving to the university in 2006. Her research and scholarship interests are in the newer generations of social work students; the effects of neoliberalism generationally and on practice; free expression and debate in the social work classroom; radical social work; and promoting attention to poverty and inequality by reclaiming liberal values for social work education. She has authored numerous journal articles, chapters, and two books: Values in Social Work and Social Work for Lazy Radicals.