Annual of social work, Vol. 20 No. 2, 2013.
Review article
DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOOL SOCIAL WORK IN SLOVAKIA AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC: CURRENT ISSUES
Tatiana Matulayová
; Department of Social Studies and Special Education, Technical University of Liberec
Renáta Hrušková
; Department of Social Sciences, Technical University in Košice
Ilona Pešatová
; Department of Social Studies and Special Education, Technical University of Libere
Abstract
Since the 1980’s, the social work profession has experienced first a quantitative and later on also the qualitative development in the former Czechoslovakia, nowadays the Slovak and the Czech Republics. One of the current issues it concerns is its institutionalisation in the school system.
The institutionalisation of school social work in the postmodern society is discussed in this article. With respect to the common history of the social work institutionalisation in both countries, the article only depicts the situation in the Slovak Republic as a representative example. The current Slovak school legislation on the one hand defines a complex professional help to the pupils and their families, but on the other it completely fails to recognise the importance of the social work profession. The authors discuss the causes of this unsatisfactory situation in the social work profession and outline the possibilities for its further development in the Slovak and Czech school system.
Keywords
institutionalisation of social work; school social work; school social worker
Hrčak ID:
112969
URI
Publication date:
23.12.2013.
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