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Systemic View on Developing Social Work
Abstract Submissions Closed
RC51 Sociocybernetics (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
The current developmental efforts in the field of social work in the local level often include international influence and collaboration like participating in conferences or studying the experiences described in current research literature. To reach more long-term goals in this kind of development, the interested parties may put together project plans and search external funding for their work.
Whatever the form of collaboration, multifaceted challenges of implementation occur when ideas from other contexts are utilized as source of inspiration for the local development. In this respect, sociocybernetics helps us engage with the world around us in a meaningful way. Systems thinking and systemic view keep on reminding us how the developmental efforts focused on a chosen subsystem need to be constantly viewed in terms of the whole system, including also other subsystems. This is more easily said than done. Therefore, openness and curiosity, as well as courage and perseverance are vital for systemic view.
Focusing on the local and global developments of social work, this session aims to organize discussions in a fruitful dialogue reaching out also to the overall themes of IV ISA Forum: Democracy, Environment, Inequalities and Intersectionality. For this purpose, this session welcomes presentations of cases, as well as conceptual studies from various parts of the world.
The organizers of the session have experience in building up a network to develop social work in long-term basis, since 2017. Finland and Kazakhstan, differ in many ways as countries. However, many shared interests have been found, and reflected upon.