Projekt som retorik och praktik : Om utvecklingsarbete på särskilda ungdomshem
Project as rhetoric and practice : About development work in special approved homes
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Summary, in English
The document study shows that development work within the social field started to gain importance in the mid-1940s. At this time governmental institutions with responsibility for experimental work and research were established. During the 1970s development work started to become more commonplace within youth care and a number of major development projects were initiated. Development work that builds upon central initiatives is still the prevalent form of development work within youth care. The case study of the five youth homes demonstrates the difficulty of anchoring development projects in the personnel. This difficulty has led to many of the projects failing to reach their objectives. As a part of the development work the youth homes have received contributions for educational efforts. Even if these efforts have contributed to knowledge and methodological development the personnel in some cases have had difficulties in assimilating the training. At some of the youth homes several of the projects have not worked according to plan, which has led to the personnel becoming sceptical and mistrustful of the possibilities of the projects. From an organisational theory perspective, development funding is an informative means of control and functions as an administrative way of governing youth care. For the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care there exist reasons of both legitimacy and function in initiating development projects. For the youth homes it is mainly a question of function, namely obtaining more resources for the operation.
Department/s
Publishing year
2006
Language
Swedish
Publication/Series
Lund Dissertation in Social Work
Full text
Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
School of Social Work, Lund University
Topic
- Social Work
Keywords
- project makers
- driving forces
- family work
- research and development projects
- project organization
- informative means of control
- experimental work
- youth care
- Social work
- development work
- Social changes
- theory of social work
- Sociala förändringar
- teorier om socialt arbete
Status
Published
Supervisor
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1650-3872
- ISBN: 91-89604-30-X
Defence date
9 June 2006
Defence time
10:15
Defence place
Edebalksalen, Socialhögskolan, Bredgatan 26, Lund
Opponent
- Bengt Börjesson (Professor)