Exploring welfare bricolage in Europe’s superdiverse neighbourhoods

Abstract

political and social context. In Croatia, the authors presented the ‘challenges for social work education: lessons from a post-socialist context.’ They divided their presentation into five components to tackle the professional social work profile and education; and then started by stating the history and evolution of the context and the profession of social work describing the synergy between the education and the state intervention, the academic influence, to conclude about the current social work situation. In Latvia, the chapter is about ‘Social work education: post-crisis impact and development.’ The authors presented three main components: the history, the main areas of social work (professional activities, most relevant work areas and triggers and causes of these developments), the current model of social work. In the Netherlands, the authors highlight the ‘Reconstruction of social work education.’ They describe clearly and with a deep understanding the social work profession, history and most importantly the reconstruction of the social work profile. Every paragraph characterises parts of the puzzle that created the profile of social work today in the Netherlands. Starting from the history (citizenship identity, multi-nationalities, challenges), reconstruction, VET and Higher education ethics, relationship to the political aspects, the professional identity, the international profile. In Romania, ‘the revival of Romanian social work education and its prospects’ is the focus. The author presented the history of social work and how throughout the years it evolved, it also presents the main challenges of today’s education, and it also presented the curriculum of the social work academic programme (list of courses, and the pedagogical framework). In the United Kingdom, the social work education was the main theme. The authors provided a general overview about the history of social work, its evolution, and challenges throughout the years. They highlighted the profession of social workers and its operational models within the regions of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. Then, the authors mentioned the development of the profession of Social Work on the Educational, academic, and professional level emphasizing the solution provided to empower the profiles of the social workers.