Sylabus
there is no fixed sylabus as the course is flexible reflecting the concrete conditions of outgoing and incoming Erasmus students or online workshops participants
In the summer semester 2025 the syllabus is identical with the International Days in Social Work final programme first encounter with doc Krizova Oct 3,
November 10, immatriculation - a ceremony in the Charles University, lesson from 11 o clock will take place as scheduled
Lectures:
Social change in Czechoslovakia in 1989 (https://www.soc.cas.cz/sites/default/files/soubory/contemporary_czech_society_sample_chapter_ch51_lyons.pdf)
Social work in the Czech Republic
Precarisation in international context, poverty in European perspective- discussion on reading the editoral and the Czech paper from Österreichisches Jahrbuch für Soziale Arbeit 6/24, https://lnkd.in/d2tKyfV9
Social situation of the Roma population
Mental health and mental care in the CR
Other potential contents
Homelessness, or dysfuntional families and child protection, or poverty and social work - discusion on your intercultural experiences- comparative perspective in dealing with social problems in your countries
Meeting and discussion with Czech social work students who participated in international events site visit
Resources:
Lyons, P., Kindlerová, R. (ed.). (2016) Contemporary Czech Society. Sociologický ústav (Akademie věd ČR) recommended chapters for reading and reporting: please select one chapter and make a personal report/reflection (2 pages)
Chapter 2: The Czechs want equality? Pat Lyons
Chapter 3: What is the price of equality and inequality in Czech society? Pat Lyons
Chapter 5: What does undeclared work tell us about Czech Society? Pat Lyons
Chapter 6: Are illegal drugs and prostitution bad for Czech society? Pat Lyons
Chapter 7: What are the attitudes of Czechs towards climate change? Pat Lyons
Chapter 10: Are Czechs more satisfied with Their lives under communism Than Today? Pat Lyons
Chapter 11: What is current public opinion towards the Velvet Revolution? Pat Lyons
Chapter 27: What is Czechs' level of knowledge about refugees and asylum seekers, and is it Important? Pat Lyons
Chapter 38: Are Czech unique values? Pat Lyons
Chapter 40: Is religion dead in the Czech Republic? Pat Lyons
Chapter 42: Does the Czech Republic have a permissive society? Pat Lyons
Chapter 47: The older Czechs Fairly Behave toward your younger and future generations? Pieter Vanhuysse
Chapter 48: Why is it unpopular to be old in the Czech Republic? Romana Trusinová
Chapter 49: Is there equal treatment of Ethnic Minorities in the Czech Republic? Daniel Prokop
Chapter 50: Why do Czechs fear foreigners? Daniel Prokop
Chapter 51: Are Czechs prejudiced? Pat Lyons
Chapter 52: Does Czechs' Use of the words "Roma" or "Gypsy" in daily conversation matter? Pat Lyons
Chapter 53: Why does it make sense to use computer simulation to study residential segregation in the Czech Republic? Pat Lyons additional respources: https://english.radio.cz/shades-czech-society-uncovered-new-survey-8220633
„European Social Work After 1989: East-West Exchanges Between Universal Principles and Cultural Sensitivity (European Social Work Education and Practice)“ Walter Lorenz, Zuzana Havrdova, Oldřich Matoušek (eds). or select an article from ERIS Journal summer 2023, https://socialniprace.cz/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SP4_2023-web-1.pdf, or ERIS Journal winter 2023 (https://socialniprace.cz/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SP1_2023-web-1.pdf)
Ukrainian refugee integration: one year ofile:///C:/Users/uzivatel/Downloads/PAQ_UA_integration_review_2023_ENG.pdf
Breaking the deadlock: defining the quality of social work in the Czech Republic through social work research, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/13691457.2023.2208765?needAccess=true
Österreichisches Jahrbuch für Soziale Arbeit/ Annual Review of Social Work and Social Pedagogy in Austria
Special issue on precarisation: https://lnkd.in/d2tKyfV9 (copy the link)
Eva Krizova, Tatiana Matulayová Precarisation in the Czech Republic – social workers and their clients in the same boat. 159-174.
Strategy-for-Roma-Equality--Inclusion-and-Participation-_Strategy-for-Roma-Integration_-2021-2030 (https://vlada.gov.cz/assets/ppov/zalezitosti-romske-komunity/aktuality/Strategy-for-Roma-Equality--Inclusion-and-Participation-_Strategy-for-Roma-Integration_-2021-2030.pdf)
Jelínková, Marie (ed.) Local Migrant Integration Policies and Their Structural Mechanisms 2023, ISBN: 978-80-246-4195-9, Karolinum Praha
Vágnerová, Marie – Marek, Jakub – Csémy, Ladislav Homelessness Among Older Adults in Prague Causes, contexts and prospects 2020, ISBN: 978-80-246-4525-4, Karolinum Praha
Anotace
THIS COURSE IS A PARALEL TO RPZ04 FOR STUDENTS WHO ALREADY PASSED RPZ04 AND EISH TO REPEAT THE COURSE WITH ANOTHER CONTENT.
PLEASE - FIRST ATTENDERS CHANGE YOUR ENROLLMENT TO RPZ04 (WITHOUT B)
The main content of this course is to learn about international social work. This may be achieved by various activities and assignments, e.g. partly by the participation in International Days in Social Work organised by the Protestant Theological Faculty in the summer semester 2025 (https://web.etf.cuni.cz/ETFENG-418.html), optionally by participation in international Days organised by our Erasmus partners (only available to Czech students) or through Erasmus stay in social work (only available to Czech students).
The course will be concluded by a student´s report from the International event or in case of regular course programme on a comparative issue - e.g. migration, sustainable development goals or multicultural social work, 3 pages, valid for winter semester 2024 (5400 signs).
In the winter semester 2024 following conditions are valid: active participation in the lessons (scheduled for Thursdays 13-14:30) one presentation of reading, mentioned below one written assignment on selected topic (mentioned below)
The main aim is to broaden up the European and global perspective of social work and to enable the recognition of international cultural experiences during Erasmus exchange study.
