BULETIN ğTIIN IFIC - Universitatea George Bacovia

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George NEAMU
of a very recent date; 2. these do not cover but isolated areas of the domain; 3. there
is no representative study to fundament social work in general; and 4. only isolated
and fragmentary correlation have been made between specialists formation through
university education and the real request for social workers.
Yet, as far as the social work field is concerned it rests some issues to be
clarified: (1) how can be transformed an educational system with precarious
resources into a successful training form (2) how can be used the university
autonomy for the construction of social work as a national vocational profession (3)
who validates and makes the monitoring and the real evaluation of the activities of
professional training (4) who establishes the connexion from the offer of initial
professional training and the request of the labour market
What we intend is a complementary approach of the existent preoccupations
with an accent on the necessary accentuation of the relation / connection between the
university and the social space: on one hand we would identify the areas that highly
request social workers as intervention specialist for vulnerable populations, and on
the other hand we would trace the specialisation directions for the master’s studies in
order to get a better absorption and utility of the professionals. The research
coordinates are structured on a complex set of social investigations techniques and
methods of which we remind:
• The processing of the official documents;
• Existent data base analysis of certain social service and universities;
• Field investigations based on interviews and questioners;
• Focus groups with specialists;
• Depth interviews with key informers (representatives of universities and
local public administration);
• Comparative content analysis.
The envisaged theme mainly aims to better understand universities’ strategies
and to sociologically investigate the actual protection and social work network.
The central idea of the research circumscribes the question: haw can be the
social work profession standardized at national / regional level, so that through its
master’s specialisations to find itself into an efficient communication relation with the
social protection network about to be decentralised.
The research correlates the social work professional formation (through
university education) parameters and the real need of certain specialisations with the
help of the protection and social work activities description under the auspices of
administrative decentralisation represents an initiative that implies high costs. The
solutions the project would suggest are to be certainly in concordance with the
European Union dynamics of the domain – the professional homogenisation and
standardization under the auspices of the public service “privatization” –, and with the
creation of the specialisations’ hierarchy requested by social work practice. “George
Bacovia” University of Bacau, due to its professional and institutional resources like
positioning, partnership and internal resources advantages, considers that it can use
these for starting an advanced research in what the professional standardization and
master’s specialisation opportunities in social work implies. As well, the university
facilitates for the project an already consolidated infrastructure that would be updated
to better serve team’s work.
Certainly, the designated institutions would fully and efficiently contribute to the
new restructuring and reformatory PROJECT that refers as well to professionalizing