Kontakt 2013, 15(1):75-81 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.010
A probe into diversity of the social work concept in students of social branchesHealth and Social Sciences - Original article
- Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Zdravotně sociální fakulta, katedra sociální práce
The article presented here deals with the diversity of the social work concept in students of social branches at the Faculty of Health and Social Studies (branches Rehabilitation-Psychosocial Care for Children, Adults and Seniors and Social Work in Public Administration) and Faculty of Theology (the branch Social and Charitable Work), University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice.
The target of the work was to identify tendencies of students of particular branches to some of the three concepts of the social work according to: administrative, professional or philanthropic.
We assumed that the concept preferred by the students will correspond with the specific study profile of the branch studied.
For the data accumulation, we used a technique of semi-structured questionnaire, which was distributed to students in the course of the teaching process. The data acquired were statistically processed by using the SPSS 16 programme.
The results demonstrated the fact that the students of the rehabilitation and psychosocial care oscillate between the philanthropic and professional concepts of the social work, whereas students of the social and charitable work do not exert pronounced tendencies to any concept of the social work and the students of the social work in public administration tend to the professional concept. Thus, there is still a question concerning the factor forming the concept of the social work in the students. This means that the branch studied is not the main determining factor of the inclination to a certain concept of the social work.
Keywords: social work; students; social work concept; education in social work
Received: January 2, 2012; Accepted: October 24, 2012; Published: March 15, 2013 Show citation
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