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
Institute of Pedagogical and Psychological Sciences – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Contact Person: PhDr. Edita Ondřejová, Ph.D.
Timetable
Thu 10:35–12:10 C309
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 – ​​introduction to the issue 2. Religious, philosophical and social context of social activities. Subject and periodization of the history of social work, literature review 3. Social assistance and care in antiquity: paternalism and philanthropy 4. System of solidarity practice in Judaism. Origins and development of Christian philanthropy (1st–10th centuries) 5. The main forms and methods of social care and mutual solidarity in the 11th–15th centuries. century 6. Between mercy and repression I. Social welfare during the Renaissance and the beginning of the Reformation (16th century). 7. Between mercy and repression II. Social welfare in the Baroque and Enlightenment periods (17th-18th centuries). 8. Social assistance and care for the poor in the period of the emergence of modern society (1789–1848). 9. The birth of modern social policy and social work (1848–1914) 10. Social work between the two wars: the influence of sciences and ideologies (1918–1939) 11. The welfare state and social work after World War II (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 from compulsory literature and lectures - cross-sectional verification of subject knowledge *Specification of the conditions for the completion of the subject will always be in the information system before the beginning of classes in the semester.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
It is allowed to finish the subject even outside the exam period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2019, Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024.
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