61 | SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK THEORY AND PRACTICE

School of social work theory and practice aims to provide a unique space where students, peer-support workers, service users, academics, researchers and practitioners engage in a meaningful dialogue on current issues of social work. The courses are dedicated to specific fields of social work and are also linked through transversal topics often focussed on challenging and controversial issues in social work. It has a progressive and activist focus and promotes that social work should be fully engaged with the society and make a positive contribution to it. Alongside plenary keynote lectures, panels and assemblies, presentations on current research and experiential workshops, there is space for co-creation of the programme. The communal spirit of the course engages very egalitarian discourse of current issues and of reinventing the social justice aspect of everyday social work. The week has a plenary programme plus parallel session of special interest. We aim for a unique experience of reciprocal and transformational learning. Continuously, we address themes of social work with children and families, deinstitutionalisation, social policy, children in conflict with law, old age, spirituality, social work theories and methods and community social work. Each year we also dwell on topics that cut across former ones, such as: action research, social work as an anticolonial practice, self-organisation, violence, users’ power etc. School convenes for two distinct sessions in June and September.

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Two ECTS are awarded for participation, five ECTS for active participation (slides or abstract), ten ECTS for active participation and a published report, and fifteen ECTS for active participation and a published and reviewed academic article. ECTS are awarded and certified by course directors. However, it is the participants’ responsibility to make arrangements with their home establishment for validation of the credits awarded if such an arrangement does not already exist.