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Developing expertise in social work - Family Group Conference Approach as innovative knowledge production

SK-N 27.8.2004. 2. DEVELOPING EXPERTISE IN SOCIAL WORK - FAMILY GROUP CONFERENCE

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Developing expertise in social work - Family Group Conference Approach as innovative knowledge production

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    1. SK-N 27.8.2004 1 Developing expertise in social work - Family Group Conference –Approach as innovative knowledge production Synnöve Karvinen-Niinikoski 27.8.2004

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    3. SK-N 27.8.2004 3 Two trends in (re-)constructing social work expertise (see Lymbery 2003) Evidence-based ’movement’ for knowledge-based welfare services: Excellence in best practices. Systematic research and knowledge reviews for evidence. Reflective critical practice: Contextual practices, contextual flexibility. Shared expertise, parnership in knowing.

    4. SK-N 27.8.2004 4 Family group conference challenging the existing expertise flexible and reflective outside hierarchical expert positions context for contextual negotiations ’life-political’ expertise every-day social knowledge and innovations

    5. SK-N 27.8.2004 5 Social work and its challenges profession for social change and for improving opportunities for dignified and socially sustainable living complicated, differentiated and particular issues, problems and situations combatting changing social problems and marginalisation processes cultural, ethnic and gender identities

    6. SK-N 27.8.2004 6 Changing expertise 1(4) (see Eräsaari 2003) changing understanding of knowledge and knowledge production changing position of experts and professionals new relation to experiential knowledge of both users, practitioners and even of reseachers new kinds of negotiations, co-operational and networking environments for knowledge

    7. SK-N 27.8.2004 7 Changing expertise 2(4) dialogical, open and even conditional for negotiations context-dependency and new kind of interaction between ”practical knowledge” and ”explicit knowledge” street-level, lay and user involvement need for mechanisms, forums and dialogue for knowledge creation and epistemic pluralism

    8. SK-N 27.8.2004 8 CHANGING EXPERTISE 3(4) involvemet in social and every-day life traditional in social work but new in expert knowledge crises of traditional expertise leaning on scientific knowledge, professional jurisdiction and institutional hierarchies questioning of knowledge, scientific truth and ways for knowledge production

    9. SK-N 27.8.2004 9 CHANGING EXPERTISE 4(4) from acquisition of knowledge towards knowledge creation cycles for learning and innovations open and closed expertise (~1st and 2nd expertise) reflexive expertise

    10. SK-N 27.8.2004 10 expertise open closed recognises uncertainty ready for questioning, communication willingness to negotiate and reconstruct according to different contexts severe and unconditional from ’core’ knowledge to advice administrative and managerial traditions

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    12. SK-N 27.8.2004 12 Family group conference as mixed expertise creating new understanding through mixing and transferring the boarder systems producing every-day social innovations windows and forums for social knowledge production for social innovations for better practices

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    14. SK-N 27.8.2004 14 Criticisms on family group conference? Remoting practice from expertice by dwelling into practice Managerialist knowledge production Lack of systematic knowledge production and service development Misinterpretation and risky experiments with people

    15. SK-N 27.8.2004 15 References Eräsaari,R ( 2003) Open context expertise. In Bamme,A & al. (eds.)Yearbook 2003 of the institute of advanced studies of Science, Technology and Society. Technic und Wissenschaftsforscghung Vol 41. Munchen-Wien: Profil, 31 -65. Hakkarainen, K.,Palonen, T. Murtonen, M., Paavola, S. and Lehtinen, E. (2003), ’Assessing networked expertise: A multi-level inventory’, University of Helsinki and University of Turku. Forthcoming (An article submitted for publication). www.helsinki.fi/networkedlearning. Karvinen,S (2004) Social Work Supervision: Contributing to innovative knowledge production and open expertise. In Gould,N & Baldwin, M (eds.) Social Work, Critical Reflection and learning organisation. Aldershot: Ashgate, 23 - 39. Lymbery, M (2003) Lymbery, Mark (2003) Negotiating Contradictions between Competence and Creativity in Social Work Education. Journal of Social Work. Vol 3, No 1, April 2003, pp. 99 – 117.

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