Participatory Social Work: Research, Practice, Education

Mariusz Granosik, Anita Gulczyńska, Małgorzata Kostrzyńska, Brian Littlechild – Here We Are: Our Journey to Participatory Research 7

Part I. Changing Communities through Participatory Practices 15
Geof Dix, Sue Hollinrake, Sara Spencer – Co-producing Community with Disabled Researchers and Citizens: the Challenges and Potential for Successful Collaboration 17
Witold Mandrysz – Participatory Budgeting: Action Research Procedures in Community Work 33
Chiara Panciroli, Francesca Corradini – Doing Participatory Research with Families that Live in Poverty: the Process, Potential and Limitations 47
Małgorzata Kostrzyńska, Monika Wojtczak – Participatory Response to Needs of People Who Experience Homelessness: the Example of “Homeful – Homeless” Box Project 65
Eliška Černá, Lenka Polánková – Empowering Community: Theatre of the Oppressed as a Tool of Homeless People’s Emancipation 85
Hilaria Soundari – Contemporary Scenario of Participatory Social Work Research in Rural India 101

Part II. Issues in Intercultural Participatory Social Work and Research 115
Rita Bertozzi – Empowering Migrant Youth through Participatory Approach in Social Work 117
Katarzyna Czarnota – Participatory Research with Romanian Roma Immigrants Living in Polish Settlements: Methodology, Results and Barriers 133
Davide Galesi – Ethnopsychological Consultation: a Tool for Strengthening of Partnerships in Multicultural Social Work 149
Marek Mikulec, Kateřina Glumbíková – Difficulties Faced by Researchers in Participatory Practices: An Example of Research with Roma People 165

Part III. Challenges Encountered in Participatory Research and Practice 179
Anna Jarkiewicz – Theory and Practice of Participatory Approach in Schools: an Example of the Future Youth Schools – a Forums Project 181
Alice Gojová, Kateřina Glumbíková – Dilemmas in Participatory Approaches to Social Work 197
Izabela Kamińska-Jatczak – Lines of Activity Addressed to Families: Limiting the Participatory Approach as with Casework Practitioners 211
Linda Kemp, Di Bailey, Adam Barnard – Doing Participatory Action Research: Reflections on Criticality and Social Justice from the Researchers’ Perspective 235
Mariusz Granosik, Anita Gulczyńska, Anna Jarkiewicz, Małgorzata Kostrzyńska – Challenges Faced by Social Pedagogy Academics in the Course of Participatory Action Research with Homeless People and Street Workers as Co-Researchers 253

Part IV. Participatory Issues in the Academic Education 275
Doris Böhler – Learning Together: Social Work Students and Service Users Reflect Critically on Their Diverse Life Experiences 277
Creating Links Group – “Creating Links”: The Involvement of Service Users and Carers in the Provision of Social Work Education in England 287
Magdalena Sasin – The Project of Artistic Workshops with Students: Achievements and Challenges of Participatory Practice in University Curriculum 303

Part V. Participatory Social Work – Current Debates 323
Peter Beresford – Radicalising Social Work: Involving Everyone; Including All Our Knowledges 325
Brian Littlechild – The Potential and Reality for the Inclusion of Service Users in Social Work 339
Marek Czyżewski – Pitfalls of Participatory Approaches 359

List of Contributors 369