Reflecting on a Common Core and the Variability of Social Work Definitions : “Theme and its Interpretations” by Foucault

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2019.1656573" target="_blank" >10.1080/10437797.2019.1656573</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Reflecting on a Common Core and the Variability of Social Work Definitions : “Theme and its Interpretations” by Foucault

Original language description

The assumed impossibility of forming a widely accepted view of social work is explained on the one hand by the contesting nature of social work definitions and on the other by a loss of professional identity since the 1960s. The aim of the article is to elaborate a third explanation based on the hypothesis that social workers adhere to their differing interpretations of common social work themes. The argument for this article is designed from Foucault’s idea of a “thematic realm which reveals a set of possible interpretations.” To reach the aim, we address the question of why Bartlett, who explicitly adheres to an individual view of a common social work theme, emphasizes her specific interpretation of what she identifies as the social work focus. By generalizing the answer to this question, a hypothesis on the motives for defining social work in terms of individual views of a common social work theme is developed. It is argued that the lack of a widely accepted view of social work is a consequence of social work being defined by individual social workers based on ideas beyond their immediate conscious control. Suggestions are made on how to educate social workers to reflect on their unexamined motives for adhering to dissimilar interpretations of social work common themes.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50602 - Public administration

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Social Work Education

ISSN

1043-7797

e-ISSN

2163-5811

Volume of the periodical

56

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

384-393

UT code for WoS article

000484911100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85071966516