Guests: Dr. Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö: senior lecturer at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Dr. Ingo Stamm: postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Introduction to this episode: The social work training institutions around the world play a crucial role in helping shape the specific competencies and wider professional culture of new generations of social workers. Those emerging professionals are now taking up their diverse social work duties and roles against a backdrop of escalating physical environment and ecological justice challenges. Those challenges will inevitably influence the nature of social work practice in the future. It has been a key objective of this podcast series to hear what my interview guests think about such challenges, and their implications for future SW practice.
Over the course of the series I have interviewed a significant number of university based social work educators and trainers - in Australia, the USA and the UK. Many of them have talked about their experiences in training new generations of social workers in eco-social work practice. I am delighted to be able to extend this particular focus of the series to welcome two interview guests based in Finland. They represent a mainland European perspective on eco-social work education and training issues.
Dr. Ingo Stamm had a decade long career as a social work practitioner in the field of child and youth services before becoming a social work educator, incorporating a range of professional interests including ecosocial work and sustainability.
Dr.Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö has almost twenty years’ experience in teaching and research across a wide field of inquiry. Some of her most recent research work focusses on the connection between social and environmental disadvantage in the mining industry, and the possible future of social work practice in the context of global ethics and the climate crisis.
In this interview, I ask Satu and Ingo about the opportunities and challenges for training students in eco-social work (ESW) practice. They share their views on what ESW practice can do to help tackle climate change and other, physical environment and ecological challenges. And they consider what the short to mid-term future might hold for ESW intervention, either within the Finnish, European or international social work mainstream.
SUMMARY OF MAIN INTERVIEW TALKING POINTS – with approximate time elapsed in minutes
Relevance of ESW to mainstream SW practice -19.47
RESOURCES RELVANT TO EPISODE DISCUSSION – please note that active URL links only appear on some podcast sites, notably the PODBEAN parent hosting site.
Guest publication record
Selected publications list of Dr. Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö on Researchgate and on ORCID
Selected publications of Dr Ingo Stamm on Researchgate and
Educational approaches
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) – a fairly recent (2019) paper which discusses some pros and cons of MOOC use for social work education.
Action Research education model – paper on the use of feminist participatory action research (FPAR) used within climate change advocacy in the Asia Pacific region - cited in Australian social work training course (Edith Cowan University)
International collaboration
IFSW: People’s Global Summit event: ‘Co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind’ h June to July 2022. And some implications for the role of social workers in advancing a new eco-social world.
History of ideas and past perspectives on the value of eco-social work practice
Selected publication record of Professor Fred Besthorn going back to the late 1990s.
Codes of Social Work practice
Australian Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics (2000) with several references to the required physical environment concerns of social workers - for example see section 4.2 p.13.
GUEST AND CONTACT DETAILS:
Guests:
Dr. Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö: satu.ranta-tyrkko@jyu.fi
Dr. Ingo Stamm: ingo.p.stamm@jyu.fi
Householders’ Options to Protect the Environment (HOPE):
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Production: Produced for HOPE by Andrew Nicholson
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This episode recorded in Toowoomba, S.E. Queensland, Australia on 1st February 2023
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