UPPVBP027 History of Social Work

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2017
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
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with religious, philosophical and ethical bases of social welfare and the history of social care and social work in the context of social policy in Europe and also in Czech and Slovak territories. The course follows the development of the various forms of social care and social work from antiquity to the turn of the 19th and 20th century, and the subsequent genesis and development of social work as a specialised professional field and scientific discipline. This issue is traced on three interconnected levels, so that after passing the course, students are well oriented in the historical development of philosophical aspects and motivations of social care and its organizational forms, and in the content changes of social care and social work. Study Outcomes: Professional Knowledge: The students have an overview of the available literature, they can distinguish the main developmental stages of social care and social work, they understand contemporary and current terminology. They demonstrate basic knowledge about the development of religious, philosophical and ethical views on the issues of the state and the citizen, charitable activities, social care and social work. They know individual historical forms and methods of assistance, starting with various gifts of the members of the elite, over the creation of formalized aid by municipalities and organizations to the legislatively grounded commitments of the state, municipalities and corporations to citizens and forms of their implementation. They demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of social care and assistance from the non-specialized meeting of diverse needs in the traditional society to specialized fields of assistance in the modern and post-modern society. Professional Skills: Students can search for and sort relevant information and produce a written characteristics of the various stages and forms of social work, they can interpret their historic conditionality and variability, they can comprise and interpret the fundamental differences between the historical and the modern forms of social care and social work in the context of social development and put them in mutual comparison.
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 to 10th century)
    5. The main forms and methods of social care and mutual solidarity in the 11th to 15th century.
    6. Between mercy and repression (16th to 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 (1918-1948)
    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)
    13.
Literature
    required literature
  • MUSIL, L. Různorodost pojetí nejasná nabídka a kontrola výkonu "sociální práce". In Sociální práce/Sociálna práca, č./roč. 2/2008, s. 60-79. ISSN 1213-6204. info
  • KODYMOVÁ, Pavla. Historie české sociální práce v letech 1918-1948. Praha: Karolinum, 2013. info
  • JANÁK, D. Kapitoly z dějin sociální práce. Opava: Slezská univerzita v Opavě, 2012. info
  • JANÁK, D. a ŠEVČÍKOVÁ, E. Historie sociální práce a sociálního podnikání. Opava: FVP SU, 2010. info
  • LAAN, G. van der. Otázky legitimace sociální práce: (pomoc není zboží). Boskovice: Albert, 1998. ISBN 80-85834-41-3. info
    recommended literature
  • MUSIL, L. Tři pohledy na budoucnost sociální práce. Hradec Králové: Gaudeamus, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7435-086-3. info
  • TOMEŠ, I. Úvod do teorie a metodologie sociální politiky. Praha: Portál, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7367-680-3. info
  • MATOUŠEK, O. a kol. Základy sociální práce. Praha: Portál, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7367-331-4. info
  • MATOUŠEK, O. Slovník sociální práce. Praha: Portál, 2003. info
  • RADWAN-PRAGLOWSKI, J. a FRYSZTACKI, K. Społeczne dzieje pomocy człowiekowi: od filantropii Greckiej do pracy socjalnej. Katowice: Śląsk, 1998. ISBN 83-7164-106-0. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
A written test to verify knowledge of the required literature and lectures. The test consists of a minimum of 30 closed questions with four answer options, of which only one is correct.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2014, Winter 2015, Winter 2016, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Summer 2023, Summer 2024, Summer 2025.
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