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International Social Work - RPZ04
Title: International Social Work
Guaranteed by: Department of Social Work (27-PSP)
Faculty: Protestant Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2024
Semester: both
Points: 3
E-Credits: 3
Examination process:
Hours per week, examination: 24/0, C [HS]
Capacity: winter:unlimited / unknown (unknown)
summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Eva Křížová, Ph.D.
Annotation
The main content of this course is to learn about international social work. This may be achieved by various activities and assignments, e.g. part by the participation in International Weeks in Social Work organised by our Erasmus partners or through Erasmus stay in social work. The course will be concluded by a student´s report on a comparative issue - e.g. migration, sustainable development goals or multicultural social work, 3 pages (5400 signs). The main aim is to broaden up the European and global perspective of social work and to enable the recognition of international cultural experiences during Erasmus exchange study.
Last update: Křížová Eva, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (09.04.2021)
Aim of the course

 

The main aim is to broaden up the European and global perspective of social work and to enable the recognition of international cultural experiences during Erasmus exchange study.

Last update: Křížová Eva, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (09.04.2021)
Descriptors

social work, social pedagogy, European perspective, sustainable development goals, migration, multicultural social work

Last update: Křížová Eva, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (09.04.2021)
Teaching methods

workshops or lectures, online communication- interviews, reports, readings

Last update: Křížová Eva, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (09.04.2021)
Requirements to the exam

There is no examination

credits will be allocated based on the presence in the lessons, participation in international programme when organised by the department. The central final assignment  is represented by a written report on a selected social problem supported by references from scientific literature.

During the semester, students will select one chapter from  Lyons, P., Kindlerová, R. (ed.). (2016) Contemporary Czech Society. Sociologický ústav (Akademie věd ČR) or  one article from ERIS Journal summer 2023 (https://socialniprace.cz/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SP4_2023-web-1.pdf) or ERIS Journal winter 2023 (https://socialniprace.cz/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SP1_2023-web-1.pdf) and present a summarised lesson gained in a class presentation.

 

Last update: Křížová Eva, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (09.10.2024)
Syllabus

there is no fixed sylabus as the course is flexible reflecting the concrete conditions of outgoing and incoming Erasmus students or online workshops participants

first encounter with doc Krizova Oct  3,

November 10,  immaticulation - a ceremony in the Cahrles University, lesson from 11 o clock will take place as scheduled

 Lectures:

Social change in Czechoslovakia in 1989 (https://www.soc.cas.cz/sites/default/files/soubory/contemporary_czech_society_sample_chapter_ch51_lyons.pdf)

Social work in the Czech Republic

Precarisation in international context, poverty in European perspective

Other contents

discusion on your intercultural experiences- comparative perspective in dealing with social problems in your countries

Meeting and discussion with Czech social work students who participated in international events

site visits

Resources:

Lyons, P., Kindlerová, R. (ed.). (2016) Contemporary Czech Society. Sociologický ústav (Akademie věd ČR)

recommended chapters for reading and reporting: please select one chapter and make a personal report/reflection (2 pages) 

Chapter 2: The Czechs want equality? Pat Lyons

Chapter 3: What is the price of equality and inequality in Czech society? Pat Lyons

Chapter 5: What does undeclared work tell us about Czech Society? Pat Lyons

Chapter 6: Are illegal drugs and prostitution bad for Czech society? Pat Lyons

Chapter 7: What are the attitudes of Czechs towards climate change? Pat Lyons

Chapter 10: Are Czechs more satisfied with Their lives under communism Than Today? Pat Lyons

Chapter 11: What is current public opinion towards the Velvet Revolution? Pat Lyons

Chapter 27: What is Czechs' level of knowledge about refugees and asylum seekers, and is it Important? Pat Lyons

Chapter 38: Are Czech unique values? Pat Lyons

Chapter 40: Is religion dead in the Czech Republic? Pat Lyons

Chapter 42: Does the Czech Republic have a permissive society? Pat Lyons

Chapter 47: The older Czechs Fairly Behave toward your younger and future generations? Pieter Vanhuysse

Chapter 48: Why is it unpopular to be old in the Czech Republic? Romana Trusinová

Chapter 49: Is there equal treatment of Ethnic Minorities in the Czech Republic? Daniel Prokop

Chapter 50: Why do Czechs fear foreigners? Daniel Prokop

Chapter 51: Are Czechs prejudiced? Pat Lyons

Chapter 52: Does Czechs' Use of the words "Roma" or "Gypsy" in daily conversation matter? Pat Lyons

Chapter 53: Why does it make sense to use computer simulation to study residential segregation in the Czech Republic? Pat Lyons

additional respources: https://english.radio.cz/shades-czech-society-uncovered-new-survey-8220633

„European Social Work After 1989: East-West Exchanges Between Universal Principles and Cultural Sensitivity (European Social Work Education and Practice)“  Walter Lorenz, Zuzana Havrdova,  Oldřich Matoušek (eds).

or select an article from ERIS Journal summer 2023, https://socialniprace.cz/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SP4_2023-web-1.pdf, or ERIS Journal winter 2023 (https://socialniprace.cz/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SP1_2023-web-1.pdf)

Ukrainian refugee integration: one year ofile:///C:/Users/uzivatel/Downloads/PAQ_UA_integration_review_2023_ENG.pdf

Breaking the deadlock: defining the quality of social work in the Czech Republic through social work research, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/13691457.2023.2208765?needAccess=true

Österreichisches Jahrbuch für  Soziale Arbeit/ Annual Review of Social Work and Social Pedagogy in Austria

Special issue on precarisation file:///C:/Users/uzivatel/Downloads/Oesterreichisches%20Jahrbuch%20fuer%20Soziale%20Arbeit%20(OeJS)%202024-2.pdf

Eva Krizova, Tatiana Matulayová Precarisation in the Czech Republic – social workers and their clients in the same boat. 159-174.

Last update: Křížová Eva, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (09.10.2024)
Entry requirements

fluent knowledge of English, possibly German may also be used

the course is not open for 1st year students

Last update: Křížová Eva, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (30.09.2020)
Registration requirements

fluent knowledge of English, possibly German may also be used

Last update: Křížová Eva, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (30.09.2020)
Course completion requirements

The results will be in form of a credit - passed or did not pass

 

The credits will be given on following conditions:

credits will be allocated on the basis of a  written assignment  that reflects selected readings and relates the reading to a social problem defined by the student.:

first, try to define a problem of your interest and then select a reading that you will reflect and discuss in your essay

either a chapter from  Lyons, P., Kindlerová, R. (ed.). (2016) Contemporary Czech Society. Sociologický ústav (Akademie věd ČR)

or  one article from ERIS Journal summer 2023 (https://socialniprace.cz/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SP4_2023-web-1.pdf) or ERIS Journal winter 2023 (https://socialniprace.cz/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SP1_2023-web-1.pdf)

additional resources are also eligible

 

 

 

Last update: Křížová Eva, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (28.09.2024)
 
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