SUMMER SCHOOL 2023: Innovative Social Work Research in Southeast Europe: Integrating Justice, Human Rights, and Civic Engagement, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Summer School, an endeavor of the Southeast Women’s Academic Leadership Network, is organized by the University of Sarajevo and the University of Prishtina. The Summer school will take place on 3-7 September 2023 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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The Summer School offers a unique opportunity for students and women leaders in social work education in Southeast Europe to enhance knowledge and exchange ideas and lessons learned on gender and leadership within the larger frame of international social work, yet with authentic experiences and situated knowledge of educators from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Slovenia gathered around the Southeast Europe Academic Women’s Leadership Network established in June 2013. Aiming at the continuous development of social work education in Southeast Europe, the Summer School builds on an educational vision that blends local, international, and global perspectives and approaches that take gender into account to inform strategies for social development and transformative leadership.
The 2nd Summer School focuses on social work research thatrepresents a vibrant activity with diverse epistemologies andmethodologies gaining recognition and relevance. In SoutheastEuropean countries, there is a longstanding social workresearch community, part of the global systems of knowledgeproduction. Social work academics in the departments of socialwork are actively involved in the creation of new knowledge forsocial work curriculum and practice to support the vision ofSoutheast Europe, part of the European Union. Social workscholars in Southeast Europe are developing new, creative, andimaginative research methodologies to capture the newontology of the Southeast Europe region shaped by deeplyrooted authoritarianism, the legacy of violent ethnic conflictsand nationalism, and the rising social and economicinequalities. The social work research community is extendingexisting and developing new epistemologies and pedagogies insocial work education for equitable access to welfare, socialdevelopment, and an actively engaged citizenry. The aim of theSummer School is twofold: (i) to educate social work students tobecome critically minded users of research, and (ii) to educatethe next generation of social work researchers to engagecritically on epistemologies and methodologies in research andpractice for social development, democratization, and socialjustice.