UPPVIP027 History of Social Work

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Summer 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Dušan Janák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Dušan Janák, Ph.D.
Institute of Pedagogical and Psychological Sciences – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Contact Person: PhDr. Edita Ondřejová, Ph.D.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
FAKULTA(FVP) && TYP_STUDIA(B) && FORMA(P)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus
  • 1. Social care, social work and social policy – an introduction to the topic
  • 2. The subject and periodization of the history of social work, an overview of the literature
  • 3. Social help and care in antiquity: paternalism and philanthropy
  • 4. The origins and development of Christian philanthropy (1st-10th century)
  • 5. Main forms and methods of social care and mutual solidarity in the 11th-15th century
  • 6. Between mercy and repression (16th-18th century)
  • 7. The birth of modern social policy and beginnings of social work in the 19th century
  • 8. Social work in the Czech lands and in Slovakia before World War I
  • 9. Social work between the two wars: the influence of science and ideology (1918-1939)
  • 10. Social care and social work in the inter-war Czechoslovakia (1918-1939)
  • 11. The welfare state and social work in liberal democracies after World War II (1945-1989)
  • 12. Sovietization of social care and social work in Czechoslovakia (1945 -1989)
Literature
    required literature
  • JANÁK, D. – HLAVIENKA, L. Kapitoly z dějin sociální práce (studijní text – pracovní verze). Opava: Slezská univerzita v Opavě, 2020.
  • JANÁK, D. – HLAVIENKA, L. Dějiny sociální práce. Distanční studijní opora. Opava: Slezská univerzita v Opavě, 2022.
  • MATOUŠEK, O. a kol. Základy sociální práce. Praha: Portál, 2012. ISBN 978-80-262-0211-0. info
  • MUSIL, L. Tři pohledy na budoucnost sociální práce. Hradec Králové: Gaudeamus, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7435-086-3. info
  • NOVOTNÁ, V. a SCHIMMERLINGOVÁ, V. Sociální práce, její vývoj a metodické postupy. Praha: Karolinum, 1992. ISBN 80-7066-483-5. info
  • WENDT, W. R. Geschichte der Sozialen Arbeit 1. Die Gesellschaft vor der Sozialen Frage 1750–1900. 6., erweit. Auflage. Wiesbaden, 2017. ISBN 978-3-658-15355-7.
  • WENDT, W. R. Geschichte der Sozialen Arbeit 2. Die Profession im Wandel ihrer Verhältnisse. 2., erweit. Auflage. Wiesbaden, 2017. ISBN 978-3-658-15434-9.
    recommended literature
  • LAAN, G. van der. Otázky legitimace sociální práce: (pomoc není zboží). Boskovice: Albert, 1998. ISBN 80-85834-41-3. info
  • MUSIL, L. Různorodost pojetí nejasná nabídka a kontrola výkonu "sociální práce". Sociální práce/Sociálna práca. č./roč. 2/2008, s. 60–79. ISSN 1213-6204.
  • RADWAN-PRAGLOWSKI, J. a FRYSZTACKI, K. Społeczne dzieje pomocy człowiekowi: od filantropii Greckiej do pracy socjalnej. Katowice: Śląsk, 1998. ISBN 83-7164-106-0.
  • TOMEŠ, I. Úvod do teorie a metodologie sociální politiky. Praha: Portál, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7367-680-3.
Assessment methods
Exam full-time study: on compulsory literature and lectures - cross-verification of knowledge of the curriculum
Exam part-time study: on compulsory literature and lectures - cross-verification of knowledge of the curriculum, completion of correspondence assignments - see study material
*Specification of the conditions for completion of the course will always be placed in the information system before the start of the course in the semester.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Instruction in person takes the form of group and individual consultations in the scope of 12 hours. Instructors will allow students to consult topics and topical units, students are directed to professional Czech and foreign literature and developed in their individual and deeper interest in selected issues.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2019, Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024.
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