41st WeeK

On Monday we were working with the group work and on Tuesday and Wednesday came Bill Cleary to talk about the religious values relevant for the education of social worker in the post modern society.

In these classes he tried to compare Denmark and Ireland, where he is come from. On of the questions was: in which way does religion influence our concept of “education”? Depending of the religion and the values it’ll influence the way of education of each country. For example in Denmark they are Protestants differently of France, so they’ve different values. Another question is: In which way does religion influence our concept of “social work”? I think we’ve an unconscious influence from the religion when we are talking in professional terms.

We were reflecting about the importance of the religion. A lot of educational terms are from a historical religion values like psychology, sociology…It’s important to know that the religious values are not the same than universal values because these last values have a religious influence. Also religion is a way to socialize.

One important part of the class for me was the comparison between social work and social education, because in my country I’m studying social education not social work, so I expected to know exactly the difference between these concepts. It’s necessary to know that our personal background always influence your didactic methods. A social worker and social educator is becoming to be the same differently of about twenty years ago. Nowadays the bases are almost the same. Any way, social work in Denmark means that it has to be an action and social education it’s give to a person the way of learn.

The end of the week we finished our project and we had to hand in to the teachers.