In this episode, we will examine the trajectory of social work education in Spain, and we will also focus on a selected article from the Social Work Education Journal, the affiliated journal of the EASSW.

This episode’s guests are:

•  Dr Inés Martínez-Herrero, Social Work Lecturer, Social Work Department, National University of Distance Education, Spain
• Dr Emilio Gómez-Ciriano, Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Castilla la Mancha, Spain
• Dr Jesus Pérez-Viejo, Associate Professor, Social Work Department, National University of Distance Education, Spain
• Dr. Sharlotte Tusasiirwe, Associate Professor, Western Sydney University, Australia

Reading list:

• Boryczcko,M., Novicky, T. and Gomez-Ciriano, E.J. (2023) Postcolonial Europe and its premises for decolonization. In M. Madew, M. Boryczko and M. Lusk (Eds) Decolonized approaches to Human Rights and social Work. Springer. Pp 121-147
• Gómez-Ciriano, E.J and Barciela, S. (2024) Social work and promoting human rights: Reflections on the situation of migrants and refugees in the Western Mediterranean and West African routes in P. Dankova et al. (Eds) Transnational mobility and externalization of EU borders. Lexington Books. Pp 149-169.
• Gómez-Ciriano, E.J. (2023) The contribution of social work research to promote migration and asylum policies in Europe in E.J Gomez Ciriano, E. Cabiati and S. Dedotsi (eds) Migration and social work: approaches, visions and challenges. Policy Press. Pp 5-25.
• Martínez-Herrero, M. I. (2023). Social assistance in Franco’s fascist Spain (1939–75): a history of social control, family segregation and stolen babies. In Ioakimidis and Wyllie (eds) Social Work’s Histories of Complicity and Resistance. Policy Press. Pp 109-120.
• Méndez-Bonito Zorita, P., (2005). The history of social work education in Spain: Does harmonisation make sense?. Portularia, V(1), pp. 223-235. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=161017272010
• Pérez-Eransus, B., and Martínez-Virto, L. (2020). Social work education in Spain: evaluation and challenges for a new generation of social workers. Social WorkEducation, 39(6), 750–764. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2020.1724931

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