Open AccessWill someone knock on my door? COVID-19 and social work education
Author(s) -
Bharati Sethi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
qualitative social work
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.554
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1741-3117
pISSN - 1473-3250
DOI - 10.1177/1473325020981075
Subject(s) - social work , sociology , social justice , loneliness , individualism , public relations , curriculum , context (archaeology) , pedagogy , social psychology , social science , political science , psychology , law , paleontology , biology
Guided by a person-in-environment framework and aspirations to advance social justice, the social work profession is concerned with intervening at the individual and society level. In this essay, the author reflects on individualism-collectivism, loneliness, and community belonging in the context of her lived experiences and the COVID-19 outbreak. She maintains that the micro-macro fragmentation is problematic to social work's quest for social justice. Social work must examine the place of 'community practice' in its professional curriculum to equip students with tools to fully comprehend the changing and increasingly complex social workers' role.