Annual of social work, Vol. 13 No. 1, 2006.
Original scientific paper
GENDER, WELFARE AND SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION UNDER SOCIALISM IN SLOVENIA
Darja Zaviršek
Abstract
In order to accomplish the aims of socialist revolution, the new communist leadership in Slovenia (one of the federal republics of socialist Yugoslavia), started to develop a new gender and welfare order immediately after the end of WW2. The question that the article addresses is in what extend were after 1945 gender and welfare order intertwined and what were the examples of the fact, that the novelties in social welfare system (the development of welfare institutions, interventions in cases of violence etc.) supported the novelties in gender system (women’s paid employment, women’s education etc.) and vice versa. The article is based on a long term research that focuses at the social changes and processes that happened after 1945 and which addresses the continuity and discontinuities in the field of gender, welfare and welfare education (social work). The research is based on the formal documents, archive material, current research and oral history approach in order to trace the level of everyday life rather than the official top-down history. Formal social work education played an important role after 1955, when the second school for social workers was established in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on the 7th November, on the anniversary of the October revolution.
Keywords
Gender regime; welfare regime; social work education; communism; history of social work education; every day life; oral history; primarly sources
Hrčak ID:
7593
URI
Publication date:
10.10.2006.
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