The Palgrave Handbook 
    of Global Social Work 
    Education
     Edited by 
     Sajid S. M. · Rajendra Baikady
     Cheng Sheng-Li · Haruhiko Sakaguchi
               The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social  
                         Work Education
        “This book is an important contribution to the body of literature not only on social 
        work education, but social work and social development praxis. It has been written 
        at a critical juncture when the world seems to be inundated with new and old threats 
        such as inter alia: racism, xenophobia, gender-based violence, climate change, a 
        migrant crisis, and reactionary politicians ascending to power in the traditional liberal 
        democracies and in other parts of the globe. More than ever, social work education 
        needs to adequately equip students with relevant knowledge and skills to respond to 
        the aforementioned challenges. This book will be useful to many educators, prac-
        titioners, policy-makers and students as it practically covers sixty chapters from 
        forty-three countries located in different regions of the world. I strongly recommend 
        this book to anyone who wants to have both a panoramic view and deeper understanding 
        of social work education across the globe.”
                   —Ndangwa Noyoo, Head of the Department of Social Development,  
                                    University of Cape Town, South Africa
        “The editors and contributors to this handbook are to be commended for compil-
        ing such a helpful and accessible source of information about social work education 
        around the world today. They also provide an insightful analysis of how social work 
        education has evolved and how it seeks to prepare students to serve their communities 
        in many different countries. It will be a vitally important resource for social work edu-
        cators, students, and researchers everywhere.”
          —James Midgley, Professor of the Graduate School and Dean Emeritus of the School of 
                           Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, USA
        “While sharing many similarities and common characteristics, such as the global defi-
        nition and standard with their counterparts in other countries, social work in each 
        country has its own uniqueness due to local socio-politico-cultural factors. In this 
        post-colonial era, we have tried to decentre the Eurocentric discourse of social work. 
        Knowing how social work is practiced and institutionalized in different countries will 
        be one of the decentring strategies. Throughout the years, several sets of edited vol-
        umes have been published to introduce the social work of various countries. This new 
        handbook is an exciting and most updated reference that documents and introduces 
        the social work practice of forty-three countries from around the world, many of 
        which have rarely been introduced in the existing literature. I congratulate the edi-
        torial team on this meaningful and important contribution to the global social work 
        community.”
                                                          
                          —Miu Chung Yan, Professor of the School of Social Work, 
                                   University of British Columbia, Canada
       “This handbook is essential reading for lecturers, students, policy makers, and social 
       workers, offering an easily accessible opportunity to read how social work education 
       is experienced in a range of different continents and countries within the same con-
       tinent. These contributions include not only the usual Western suspects such as the 
       USA, UK, and Australia, but importantly voices from nations less frequently heard 
       in the West including Nepal, Botswana, Ethiopia, and Palestine. The book offers the 
       reader an unparalleled opportunity to discover the width and depth of global social 
       work education that is not evident in any other book. The book asks us to question 
       our preconceptions about social work education, challenging us to consider its het-
       erogeneous nature, its contextualised development, and colonial and post-colonial 
       versions.”
                        —Hugh McLaughlin, Professor of Social Work,  
                          Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
       “In our century—fraught as it is with rapid socioeconomic and technological change, 
       not to forget unprecedented environmental challenges—a multifactorial analysis 
       offered by this book opens new vistas for social work education.”
         —Vimla V. Nadkarni, Immediate Past President of the International Association of 
               Schools of Social Work, and Former Dean of the School of Social Work,  
                            Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India
         Sajid S. M. · Rajendra Baikady ·  
       Cheng Sheng-Li · Haruhiko Sakaguchi 
               Editors
          The Palgrave 
      Handbook of Global 
     Social Work Education