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In: Social Sciences: open access journal, Band 9, Heft 7, S. 111
ISSN: 2076-0760
Social investment has been the leit motif for the development of a range of social service provisions in Aotearoa/New Zealand for the last decade. It involves a particular approach, using data to target decisions and inform directions for such key areas as social security, care and protection of children and delivery of social services. There are serious questions about the statistical base which informs the approach and the implications for disadvantaged, marginalised and targeted populations, while poverty is neglected, sidelined and/or treated as resulting from individual failure. The Aotearoa/New Zealand model of social investment represents a significant departure from needs based, equity informed welfare provision.
In: Modern intellectual history: MIH, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 261-271
ISSN: 1479-2451
It is said we are in trouble, we humanists. "The humanities are under pressure all over the world, Rens Bod begins (xii). James Turner ends, "Without question, the humanities now face greater flux than they have routinely endured in the past century" (385). The trouble and the flux seem to take two forms. There is the usual business of intellectual disciplines forming and re-forming, of new paradigms restructuring institutions, a process that one might regard as discomforting but sometimes healthy. But there is the other business of universities being governed by anti-intellectuals, aficionados of the spreadsheet, counted beans, and the alumni dinner. These predators roam campuses, sneer at libraries, abolish departments, and plan the day when, the cost-effective triumphant, scholarship will be little more than a digital ghost. At the University of Essex, lately Marina Warner was coldly informed of this new order, defined by a "Tariff of Expectations" (seventeen targets to be met) and a "workload allocation" handed down from on high. There was an indifference to what had gone before, what creative people had once hoped for for Colchester. "That is all changing now," the executive dean for humanities briskly explained. "That is over." The past, that is. Fed up, Warner resigned, hearing too loudly "the tick of the deathwatch beetle" in the fabric of the house she wished to inhabit, a university that valued scholarship and the life of the mind, as it once had.
In: Social policy & administration: an international journal of policy and research, Band 47, Heft 6, S. 729-748
ISSN: 0037-7643, 0144-5596
In: Social policy and administration, Band 47, Heft 6, S. 729-748
ISSN: 1467-9515
AbstractActive citizenship, obligations and growing surveillance have been key dimensions of the changing approach to welfare in New Zealand over the last 30 years; this article explores these changes and some of their implications. In a context of growing inequality and poverty, the emphasis has been placed on beneficiary responsibilities rather than rights. Increased participation in paid work, associated with a critical approach to 'benefit dependency', has been an integral feature of the changes, reflected in the renaming and restructuring of the benefit system. The article concludes with a discussion on some of the implications of the changes in direction, particularly in relation to poverty levels and the ways in which reduced citizenship rights are associated with and strengthens the positioning of beneficiaries as outsiders.
In: Children and youth services review: an international multidisciplinary review of the welfare of young people, Band 34, Heft 6, S. 1150-1153
ISSN: 0190-7409
In: Journal of social work: JSW, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 143-158
ISSN: 1741-296X
• Summary: Social justice lies at the heart of social work practice and is used by practitioners to describe their practice. That practice is primarily described at the individual level. • Findings: Equality and fairness are core aspects of social justice and are drawn on extensively by social work practitioners in this research project to define social justice and are reflected in their practice. The two terms are, however, given a range of diverse meanings by practitioners. Those meanings are translated into and reflected in their practice. • Application: There are important implications for social work education, the social work profession and social work practice in the diverse ways in which the terms are understood and used.
In: Framework: the journal of cinema and media, Band 52, Heft 2, S. 944-958
ISSN: 1559-7989
In: Child & family social work, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 432-440
ISSN: 1365-2206
ABSTRACTEffective services for children must be grounded in the sound conceptualization and measurement of need. The concept of need is often misunderstood because it is used in different ways. Defining need as both a requisite and a goal is desirable. The conceptualization ought to rest on an acceptance that not only are objective and universal needs to attain physical health and autonomy requirements for all human beings, but subjective needs may also sit alongside of universal needs. The ecological/developmental perspective is best suited as a framework for assessing the needs of children. One of its tenets, the importance of understanding the interaction of risk and protective factors, is highly relevant to assessing needs. An assessment of the interaction of risk and protective factors operating in a child's life reveals the requisites and goals necessary for child development. The proposed approaches to the conceptualization and measurement of need when combined will be conducive to better assessment and intervention by social workers with children.
In: Modern intellectual history: MIH, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 153-163
ISSN: 1479-2451
For some time, there has been reason for imagining that we live in neo-Victorian times. We are awash in restless evangelicals, profligate of stern and apocalyptic advice. We have had praying leaders who imagine that foreigners, usually with beards, require reform and invasion. Celts threaten secession and the Union is extolled. There is much talk of families, education, and the anxieties of class. Our novels grow long and vexed, and even have plots. Historians seek the common reader and write meandering narratives, full of metaphor, which may be purchased at railway stations.
In: Southern cultures, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 14-20
ISSN: 1534-1488
In: International social work, Band 42, Heft 4, S. 506-508
ISSN: 1461-7234