Social Work International Practice Education members
Education of Social Workers in Tartu, Estonia - Tartu Ulikool
According to the University Statute the Department of Sociology and Social Policy is a structural unit of the Faculty of Social Sciences; social work lies within this Faculty. The Department comprises of three chairs: Chair of Sociology, Chair of Methods in Social Analyses and Chair of Social Policy. At three chairs are working 34 people.
The degrees offered in the Department are:
BA in Social Sciences (Sociology, Social Work and Social Policy) (3 years)
MA in Sociology (2 years)
MA in Social Work and Social Policy (2 years)
PhD in Sociology (4 years)
Full-time ant part-time training in the field of social work and social policy is carried out at BA and MA level. Social policy considers which society is good, what kind relations exist between demographic and economic problems, how different social groups can influence the development of the whole society and what efficient ways can be found for avoiding or reducing social and economic risks and securing people’s welfare. The courses of social policy consider various systems of social security and the arrangement of social guardianship in different countries.
Social worker is a specialism which offers training for helping people who face some kind of coping problems in their life. The task of social workers is to anticipate, alleviate and find solutions to such problems.
Our department is participating in several projects financed by European Community:
2001-2004 SOCRATES Curriculum Development Programm
27865- IC- 1- 2002- 1- UK- ERASMUS- DISSUC- 1
University of Tartu, Department of Sociology and Social Policy
European Masters in Social Work
Canterbury Christ Church University College, UK
2005 SOCRATES Intensive Programme
69935-IC-1-2003-1-EE-ERASMUS-IPUC-1
University of Tartu, Department of Sociology and Social Policy
Family and Household Support in Europe
University of Tartu, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Estonia
2005 –2007 Leonardo da Vinci community action programme on vocational training
2005 I/05/B/F/PP-154105
University of Tartu, Department of Sociology and Social Policy
“Train-Pass-TRAINing for TRAINers”
Efeso, ITA
- Interest and gains from the SWIPE project
Building up the international social work course was department priority at 2005. At the same time we wanted to improve our national practice-learning curriculum and make it more effective and measurable. The opportunity to join SWIPE was for us as a new challenge. We started with practice learning seminars for international and exchange students. From 2005/2006 our department offers for EWRASMUS students the possibility to do the field practice in Tartu social welfare institutions and to defend their practice learning reports during the seminars together with Estonian students.
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