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Radical hope : poverty-aware practice for social work /

Krumer-Nevo provides a new framework for people working with and for people in poverty: The Poverty-Aware Paradigm. This book details its extensive application across diverse poverty contexts in Israel, links it to diverse facets of social work practice and provides innovative ways of thinking about...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Krumer-Nevo, Michal (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Personal positioning: social work and the political
  • Poverty and the welfare state in Israel
  • The development of the PAP in Israel
  • Families First: what next?
  • Why hope?
  • The book
  • Notes
  • 1. Poverty-aware social work: a paradigmatic proposal
  • Introduction
  • Why do we need a paradigm? Or, thinking paradigmatically
  • The conservative paradigm
  • Ontology
  • Epistemology
  • Axiology
  • Practice derived from the conservative paradigm
  • The structural paradigm
  • Ontology
  • Epistemology
  • Axiology
  • Practice derived from the structural paradigm
  • Why do we need a third paradigm?
  • The Poverty-Aware Paradigm
  • Ontology
  • Epistemology
  • Axiology
  • Practice derived from the PAP paradigm
  • Notes
  • Part I. Transformation
  • 2. How to speak critically about poverty
  • Introduction
  • The first principle is to acknowledge the knowledge of people in poverty, to view people living in poverty as having legitimate and important knowledge
  • The second principle is to recognise the pain of people living in poverty
  • The third principle is that the material/concrete and the emotional are always interconnected
  • The fourth principle is that we have to recognise what poverty is and how it expresses itself in the reduction of real opportunities or real alternatives
  • The fifth principle is not to accept poverty and to create a practice that stems from opposition to poverty
  • The sixth and last principle is that people living in poverty constantly resist poverty
  • Notes
  • 3. How to write a critical case study
  • Introduction
  • The first version: case study,i written by Semadar with my comments
  • Writing an intervention story critically
  • The test of subjectivity
  • The test of context
  • Semadar's corrected version: an intervention story with the Lev family
  • Is it good enough critical writing?
  • The third version: Lev family, an intervention story (written by me)
  • Implications for practice
  • Notes
  • 4. How to teach poverty critically
  • 1. Making room for vulnerability, pain, anger and guilt
  • 2. Allowing oneself to be an outsider
  • 3. Transforming knowledge and attitudes into practice
  • 4. Remembering the radical baggage
  • 5. Making a change without abusing power
  • Note
  • 5. Frequently asked questions about poverty and poverty-aware social work
  • Some people say that an intervention programme should be based on providing hooks and not fish, because fish provide only a temporary answer whereas hooks provide tools for ongoing change. Is this so?
  • If only people were willing to work, they would manage to get out of poverty. Right?