Examples of dysfunctions in the education of social workers

Abstract

In this study, the author draws attention to some of the dysfunctions inherent both in education regarding social work, and in the form of postgraduate education and training courses. Dysfunctions are already a social fact; they have emerged as a result of excessive tendencies of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy to unify and standardize the process of education and as a result of the excessive control over the whole process of training of social workers. The analysis in this
paper shows several major dysfunctions resulting from double standards in education, but also dysfunctions manifested in underdeveloped aims of M.A. programmes, in the misunderstanding of and underperformance in the process of professionalization, and in the excessive tendency to form narrow specializations in the profession of a social worker. The author is aware that many other anomalies that lie in the education and training of social
workers deserve a separate study and a more thorough analysis.