Women's work? Social work practice in protecting children from male violence from 1898 to 2010

女人的工作？

• 批准号: 2725666
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2725666
• 关键词: Women; work; Social; practice; protecting

My proposal is for an engaged interdisciplinary PhD exploring change and continuity in ideas about gender in social work practice between 1889 and 2010, with a particular focus on maternal protection of children from domestic violence. This project aims to provide a new, longer-term perspective to contemporary research into gendered practice and add to the extensive historiography of social work (which largely explores discourses of childhood and the relationship between the family and the state), by focussing on gender and intersectionality. It will be of interest to academics, practitioners, and educators.There has been a decline in the teaching of social work history on qualifying courses and there is a tendency to locate the origins of the profession in the post-war creation of the welfare state which obscures earlier connections with social Darwinism, maternalism and the Poor Law (Scourfield, 2020). This loss of a historical perspective de-politicises a profession that operates on the boundary between state and family, within which responses to domestic violence serve as 'a weathervane identifying the prevailing winds of anxiety about family life in general' (Gordon, 1988 p.2). My research aims to challenge this trend, producing accessible training materials, drawing on the more troubling aspects of the profession's past to provoke reflection on current attitudes. It will be rooted in practice, as 'social work needs politicized, historical research'...'grounded in the lived experiences of people in poverty and in the lived experiences, dilemmas, and challenges of practitioners' (Krumer-Nevo, 2009 p.318). This research is particularly relevant during a period of austerity, with high levels of domestic abuse within care cases and overwhelming evidence of the association between poverty and child removal, mediated by ethnicity (Bywater et al., 2020).I am particularly interested in how such gendered stories are expressed and hidden within the historically and socially contingent narratives of life story books created for children in care. I am an experienced practitioner, trainer and mentor in this area, author of the forthcoming RiP Life Story Work Practice Tool and national training programme. My article on this subject is on the reading list of many social work training programmes. My decision to study history was inspired by a visit to the Paramatta Female Convict Factory Memory Project as part of my Churchill Travel Fellowship to Australia (Djuric, 2016). This is a place where experts by experience work with and become historians, poets and playwrights to create collaborative, collective life stories. This is an approach I would like to develop in the UK post-doctorally, focussing on work with women who have experienced social work intervention as a result of domestic violence.My ideas have been inter-disciplinary from their inception; the wish to pursue this way of working motivated my decision to study history. The proposed research is methodologically innovative, using historical analysis as a way of highlighting issues in contemporary practice and seeking to explore arts-based methods of disseminating knowledge within both social work education and through developing collaborative practice in the longer term. It has the potential to make a significant societal contribution.

我的建议是一个从事跨学科的博士学位，探索1889年至2010年期间社会工作实践中性别观念的变化和连续性，特别关注母亲保护儿童免受家庭暴力。该项目旨在为当代性别实践研究提供一个新的，长期的视角，并通过关注性别和交叉性，增加社会工作的广泛史学（主要探讨童年的话语以及家庭与国家之间的关系）。这将是感兴趣的学者，从业者和教育工作者。在资格课程的社会工作历史的教学已经下降，有一种倾向，以定位在战后创建的福利国家，掩盖了早期与社会达尔文主义，母性主义和济贫法（Scourfield，2020）的联系职业的起源。这种历史视角的丧失使一个在国家和家庭之间的边界上运作的职业去政治化，在这个职业中，对家庭暴力的反应是“确定对家庭生活普遍焦虑的风向标”（Gordon，1988年，第2页）。我的研究旨在挑战这一趋势，制作易于使用的培训材料，借鉴该行业过去更令人不安的方面，以引发对当前态度的反思。它将植根于实践，因为“社会工作需要政治化的历史研究”。“立足于穷人的生活经历和从业者的生活经历、困境和挑战”（Krumer-Nevo，2009年，第318页）。这项研究在紧缩时期尤其重要，因为在护理案件中家庭虐待的比例很高，而且有压倒性的证据表明，贫困与儿童迁移之间存在关联，并以种族为中介（Bywater等人，我特别感兴趣的是，这些性别化的故事是如何表达和隐藏在为受照顾儿童创作的生活故事书的历史和社会偶然性叙述中的。我是这一领域经验丰富的从业者、培训师和导师，即将出版的RiP Life Story Work Practice Tool和国家培训计划的作者。我关于这个主题的文章被列入许多社会工作培训项目的阅读清单。我决定学习历史的灵感来自于参观帕拉马塔女囚犯工厂记忆项目，这是我的丘吉尔澳大利亚旅行奖学金的一部分（Djuric，2016）。这是一个经验丰富的专家与历史学家，诗人和剧作家合作并成为历史学家，诗人和剧作家的地方，以创造合作，集体的生活故事。这是一种方法，我想在英国博士后发展，专注于与谁经历了社会工作干预的家庭暴力的结果，妇女的工作。我的想法已经从一开始就跨学科;希望追求这种工作方式促使我决定学习历史。拟议的研究是方法创新，使用历史分析作为突出当代实践中的问题的一种方式，并寻求探索在社会工作教育和通过发展长期合作实践传播知识的艺术为基础的方法。它有可能做出重大的社会贡献。