Glocal Day: One voice – one position – about agency, place and space
Welcome to the Glocal Day of the spring semester where we think a lot about the tension between the personal and professional position.
As social workers, we have a role in society that requires us to reflect on how we use our voice and our position in relation to the challenges we face. Social issues are issues that engage people both privately and professionally.
The work as a social worker takes place in a politicized field and includes that we need to ask ourselves questions that concern ideological, ethical or even legal perspectives on life. It can be about how we understand our professional position, the responsibilities that come with it, and the limitations that it postulates. It can be about how we reason about our ethical compass or what belongs in the professional or in the private sphere. How do you reflect on activism in relation to professionalism? It could be about the whistleblower law or the climate crisis. It's about how we use our voice and our position on the issues that engage us, about personal and professional development.
Those invited to the spring semester's Glocal Day move in the field between being engaged academies/social workers, who clearly take a stand for activism; make clear public statements on politically urgent issues; I think a lot about the tension between the personal and professional position.
When: February 1, 2024
Where: room F214 Campus Österund
Who: Prof. Dr. Barbara Schramkowski, DHBW Villingen-Schwenningen; Prof. Dr. Sabine Gruber, Mid Sweden University; Helena Dahlin, a social worker; and an inspiringly recorded contribution by Prof. Dr. Stellan Vinthagen, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Program
9.15-9.30
Welcome
9.30-9.45
Inspirational film from the web: Prof. Dr. Stellan Vinthagen, Professor of Sociology and Inaugural Chair in The Study of Nonviolent Direct Action and Civil Resistance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA - the world's first professorship in civil violence.
9.45-10.30
Barbara Schramkowski, Prof. Social Work, researcher/teacher from Freiburg/Villingen-Schwenningen, DE. She argues from her clearly stated position as a climate activist/activist for children's rights, "I am an activist because I am a researcher". Via Zoom.
Helena Dahlin, a local social worker with many years of professional experience from social services, NGOs and regional institutions, discusses her positions in relation to her professional and personal commitment.
Sabine Gruber, Prof. of Social Work, researcher/teacher at MIUN, participates on the basis of her research on migration/racism and her position as a professor in relation to her professional and personal commitment to undocumented migrants or against the obligation to report. Via Zoom.
10.30-11.00
Pause and time for students to reflect on the theme: what experiences, trade-offs, positions, doubts, challenges, necessities, how do you argue?
11.00-11.45
Joint discussion with the lecturers and students.
11.45-12.00
Thank you and closing.