Student experience in developing a democratic society - participation in an international project as a new teaching method in social work

• Authors: Maciejewska, Olga , Pawlikowska, Julia

Abstracts

EN

One of the basic assumptions of the article is to reflect on the issue of a modern education system for students of social sciences, which will meet the expectations and needs of students, academic teachers, researchers, practitioners and society on the one hand, and the numerous and increasingly ambiguous challenges of modernity on the other. We pay special attention to social work as an activity and profession in which we undertake scientific, research and practical activities. The forms of education, we focus on in the article are international projects based on the implementation by students of joint educational and social projects. Their use allows to achieve the most desired effects, among which one should distinguish the increase of awareness and reflectiveness, the pursuit of critical (self)development of young people and increases openness to knowledge, experience, innovation and changes. To exemplify, we used the analysis of an international project titled Social work with mentally ill people and their families in Germany, France and Poland implemented in cooperation with partner schools at the Institute of Sociology of the Jagiellonian University.

Keywords

EN

social work; education; international projects; democracy

• Publisher: Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej. Wydawnictwo APS
• Journal: Praca Socjalna
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 34(2)
• Pages: 43-66

Dates

published

2019-09-26

Contributors

author

Maciejewska, Olga

author

Pawlikowska, Julia

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0013.5017