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Philosophical Ethics and the Diaconal Understanding of Social Work I - RDD105
Title: Philosophical Ethics and the Diaconal Understanding of Social Work I
Guaranteed by: Department of Theological Ethics (27-TE)
Faculty: Protestant Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2015 to 2017
Semester: winter
Points: 5
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:135/0, MC [HS]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)Schedule is not published yet, this information might be misleading.
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: combined
Teaching methods: combined
Level:  
Guarantor: Mgr. Ing. Ondřej Fischer, M.A., Ph.D.
Schedule   
Annotation
Last update: Mgr. Věra Fritzová (15.05.2015)
Description of the Study Unit
The aims of the study unit are that the student:
- is familiar with philosophical background to the ethical codes adopted by social work
- is familiar with the ethical codes adopted by social work in different national and international contexts
- understands the use of professional codes in practice
- can relate professional social and community work practice to different practices of religion and spirituality
- knows the origins of Diaconia in the New Testament early church history
- is familiar with the basic biblical and theological underpinning of diaconia
- knows the ethical basis of Diaconia and is able to link this to ethical codes in social work
- can relate Diaconia to personal spirituality as well as to Christian worship & congregational life in an ecumenical
context
This study unit content includes:
- Philosophical background to social work ethics
- Ethical codes adopted by national and international social work organisations
- Using ethical codes in practice
- Social work, religion and spirituality
- Early church history of Diaconia
- Theology of Diaconia
- Ethics and Diaconia
- Spirituality, worship and Diaconia, including use of the Bible
- Diaconia in an ecumenical and interfaith context

Process of the Study Unit
Week 1 + weeks 5, 9, 14 & 18
Mag. Zsofi Mucsi and different theologians every week 1 cr.
How to lead common prayer – different models of spirituality, related to themes of Diaconal social work
Each contact day using the Bible in a study circle and guidance of Bible study organized by the students + daily
group work on spirituality

Week 9
Ing. Mgr. Ondřej Fischer & Mag. Tony Addy
Philosophical background to social work ethics 8 h
Ethics and Diaconia 4 h
Ethical codes adopted by national and international social work organizations 4 h
Week 10
Dr. Martin Pietak
Assignment: Essay on ethics and social work. 1 cr.

Week 11
Dr. Mikko Malkavaara
Online lecture concerning the early church history of Diaconia 3 h
Reading and analytically commenting on compulsory books and articles on Fronter (1 cr.)

Week 14
Dr. Martin Pietak
Theology of Diaconia 4 h

Week 15-16
Dr. Martin Pietak (guidance on Fronter)
Diaconia assignment 1 cr.

Week 18
Mgr. Ing. Ondřej Fischer
Fundamental theology and the basics of Diaconia including 4 h

Dr. Martin Pietak and Mgr. Janka Adameova
The feedback from the Diaconia assignment 2 h

Contact teaching on weeks 9, 11, 14, 18 (16 h +3 h + 4 + 4 h) = 27 h =1 cr.
Literature
Last update: MORAVEC (15.05.2015)

Basic literature and study aids:

Banks, S., Ethics in Social Work, 2012, London Palgrave Macmillan (Ch 1 - 4)

International Statement on Ethics in Social Work (International Federation of Social Workers) see:

Example of how this statement is applied (Great Britain) - see:

Ethical Statement on social work in the Czech and other chosen national contexts

Brodd, Sven-Erik 2005. Diaconia Through Church History. Five Ecclesiological Models. In: Brodd et al

(Eds.) The Theology of Diaconia. Uppsala: Diakonistiftelsen Samariterhemmet, 5-26.

Diakonie 2008. Characteristics of Diaconal Culture. Strengthening the diaconal profile. Diakonie Texte 17.2008. Diakonisches Werk der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland (EKD) e.V, 65 pages (

Olson, Jeannine E. 2006. Deacons and Deaconesses in the Bible and the Early Church: The First to the Fourth Centuries. In: Deacons and Deaconessess Through the Centuries. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 17-49.

Recommended literature:

Driver, J., Ethics: The Fundamentals (Fundamentals of Philosophy), 2006 Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell

Beckett, C. & Maynard, A., Values & Ethics in Social Work, 2005, London, Sage

Davies, M., (ed) The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Social Work, 2000, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell (chapters on ethics)

Addy, Tony n.d. (no date). Diaconia - Working with People for Change. Paper for the Tallin Theological Institute in Estonia.

Barton, John 2010. The Bible: the basics. London and New York: Routledge.

Eurodiaconia 2010. Diaconal Identity - Faith in Social Care: A reflection from Eurodiaconia. Available at: www.eurodiaconia.org; direct link: http://bit.ly/9if0GM

Lindström, Lars G. 2005. A biblically theological model for diaconal action. In: Brodd et al (Eds.) The Theology of Diaconia. Uppsala: Diakonistiftelsen Samariterhemmet, 27-44.

Nordstokke, Kjell 2011. Liberating Diakonia. Trondheim: Tapir Akademisk Forlag.

Teaching methods
Last update: MORAVEC (15.05.2015)

Consultations:

24 hours contact teaching; 3h online lecture; 19h Bible study circle and spirituality; Supervising + personal feedback to each student concerning the assignment 2 h;

Individual work:

5 hours supervision on Fronter + personal feedback, participation obligatory

82 hours distance learning, e-learning on Fronter, individual assignments doing, reading for assignments

 
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