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Beginning Anew: Social Work Education in the Czech Republic After the Velvet Revolution

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European Social Work After 1989

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Changes in social work education after 1989 were radical. The influences of ideas and practical solutions coming from Western colleagues were extensive. However, the introduction of new ideas and changes in institutions depend on prevailing values, habits and normative expectations in the local country. The authors show how the cultural background and collective memory in the country filtered, modified and integrated the new influences.

The changes manifested themselves on several levels – some were the result of planned institutional changes in education, but others were the more subtle result of attitudes and behaviour patterns by social workers and teachers, which were influenced more or less by having lived under different political conditions. This line of analysis is illustrated in selected major topics for social work education that were prominent in the Czech Association of Social Work Education.

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    The college has a similar concept as Fachhochschulen in Germany (Vyšší odborná škola (VOŠ)), but it does not have the status of a university. The mixed status of VOŠ causes problems, because it is at the same time a post-secondary school, which is lower than bachelor, but it belongs to tertiary education and according to ISCED the level of education is the same as bachelor. VOŠ started in 1995 in the CR.

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    A consultational document issued by the government in 2003 to raise discussion among interested parties on local and central levels on social issues.

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  1. Department of Social Work, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Oldřich Matoušek

  2. Department of Management and Supervision in Social and Health Care Organisations, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Zuzana Havrdová

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    Walter Lorenz

  2. Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague 8, Czech Republic

    Zuzana Havrdová

  3. Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague 1, Czech Republic

    Oldřich Matoušek

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Matoušek, O., Havrdová, Z. (2021). Beginning Anew: Social Work Education in the Czech Republic After the Velvet Revolution. In: Lorenz, W., Havrdová, Z., Matoušek, O. (eds) European Social Work After 1989. European Social Work Education and Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45811-9_2

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