Social Work Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Yael Latzer is a Professor and Dean of the School of Social Work in the Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences at the University of Haifa, Israel, and the research director of the Eating Disorders Institution in the Psychiatric Division at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, Israel. Liat Shklarski is an Assistant Professor in the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, New York, USA, and conducts research on innovation in social work education.

• Introduction Chapter 1: Review of the international research related to social work education during COVID-19 Section 1: Teaching and Learning Chapter 2: Teaching and Learning Social Work During Interacting Pandemics (USA): Advancing Change Through Critical Dialogue Chapter 3: Learning While Teaching During a Collective Crisis: Post-Pandemic Possibilities for Social Work Education in Italy Chapter 4: COVID-19 and social work education: Insights from selected theoretical approaches for teaching and field education Section: 2: Field Education/ Social Work Practice Chapter 5: Rethinking Social Work Education in Italy in Light of the Pandemic: An Overview and a Focus on Fieldwork Education Chapter 6: Teaching social work practice in Israel during COVID-19: Reflections and Lessons Learned Chapter 7: Social Work Graduate Profile in the Context of Education during COVID-19: Self-Reflexive Gloss from the Czech Environment Chapter 8: Continuity of social work field supervision before and during COVID -19, 2016-2021 Section 3: Focusing on supporting students Chapter 9: Social Work Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Faculty of Social Studies, University of Ostrava, in the Czech Republic: Reflection on Student and Teacher Lived Experiences Chapter 10: Hybrid Social Work Education in South Africa: A Human-Centered Balance Chapter 11: The Making of the “New” Social Work Education in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong Section 4: Learning while focusing on community Chapter 12: Social Work Development in Georgia: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic Chapter 13: Shaping the Professional Competence of Social Work Students in the Field of Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Poland Chapter 14: Sharing Knowledge Advances the Discipline and Profession of Social Work: Open Educational Resources—A New Paradigm of Cooperation in Education Accelerated by the COVID-19 Pandemic