Social Welfare and Social Work Education In Canada
Slipping to the Right
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https://doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v2i1.28Abstract
Internationally, Canadians struggle with their national identity. Canadians proclaim that they are not Americans and like to boast that they have more in common with Sweden with its snowy winters and extensive social programmes. This article outlines some of the historical developments of social welfare in Canada and examines some of the recent trends at dismantling the programmes. In the neo-conservative state, efforts towards “globalization” and “free trade” with the United States have attacked Canada’s social safety net, marginalizing and suppressing the poor. However, in spite of the current trends, Canadians have maintained its humanitarian philosophy and resisted the “Americanization” of its social programmes. Some of this resistance has been successful but as in many other countries much of it has failed.
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Council on Social Work Education. (1960). Building the social work curriculum: Report of the national curriculum workshop. Illinois.
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Durst, D. (Ed.) (1999). Canada’s National Child Benefit: Phoenix or fizzle? Halifax, N.S.: Fernwood Publishing Press.
Graham, J.R., Swift, K.J. and Delaney, R. (2003). Canadian Social Policy, An Introduction.
Toronto, ON: Pearson Education Canada Inc.
Hicks, Steven, (2006). Social Work in Canada: An Introduction. Toronto, 2nd Edition.ON: Thompson Educational Publishing.
Kendall. A. K. (2000). Social work education: Its origins in Europe. VA. Council on social work education. Alexandria.
Johnson, L. C., McClelland, R. W., & Austin, C. D. (2000). Social work practice: A generalist approach. Scarborough, ON: Prentice-Hall.
Lightman, E. (2003). Social Policy in Canada. Don Mills, ON, Canada: Oxford University Press.
OECD, (2005). Economic outlook. No. 78. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
OECD, (2006). Taxing wages 2005/2006.: 2006 Edition. The Organization for Economic Co- operation and Development. www.oecd.org/document
OECD, (2007). Social spending, 2003. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. www,oecd.org/document
Senkpiel, Aaron. (1997). “’Side by Side’ in the Yukon: The Development of the Northern Human Service Worker/BSW Programme”. In Strategies for Northern Social Work Practice. Brownlee, K, Delaney, R. & Graham, J.R. (Eds.). Thunder Bay, ON: Centre for Northern Studies, Lakehead University. pp. 29-44.
Stephenson, Marylee. (2000). In critical demand: Social Work in Canada – Final Report.
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Teeple, G. (2000). Globalization and the decline of social reform. Ontario: Garamond Press. Turner, J.C. & Turner, F.J. (2005). Canadian Social Welfare. 5th Edition. Toronto, ON: Pearson Education Canada Inc.
UNICEF, (2005). Child poverty in rich countries. Innocenti Research Centre. Report Card No. 6. UNICEF, (2007). An overview of child well-being in rich countries. Innocenti Research Centre. Report Card No. 7.
Westhues, A., Lafrance, J., & Schmidt. (2001). A SWOT analysis of social work education in Canada. Social work education, 20 (1). 35-47.
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2007-04-01
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Durst, D. (2007). Social Welfare and Social Work Education In Canada: Slipping to the Right. Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2(1), 3–16. https://doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v2i1.28
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