Christine Morley is Professor and Head of the Social Work and Human Services Discipline in the School of Public Health and Social Work at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, and Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Phillip Ablett is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology, teaching in the social work and human services programmes in the School of Social Sciences at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Carolyn Noble is Professor of Social Work at the Australian College of Applied Psychology (ACAP) in Sydney and Emerita Professor of Social Work at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.

Stephen Cowden is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Coventry University, UK, where he has worked since 2001.

1. Introduction: The imperative of critical pedagogies for social work Part 1: Key foundational concepts 2. Karl Marx: Capitalism, alienation and social work 3. Reaching Back to Go Forward: Applying the Enduring Philosophy of Jane Addams to Modern Day Social Work Education 4. Lifting the veil of our own consciousness: W.E.B. DuBois and transformative pedagogies for social work 5. Reaching Higher Ground– the importance of Lev Vygotsky’s therapeutic legacy for Social Work 6. A Prophet without Honor: Bertha Capen Reynolds’ Contribution to Social Work’s Critical Practice & Pedagogy 7. ‘Reflecting on Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks: Marxism and Social Work 8. From Language to Art: A Marcusian Approach to Critical Social Work Pedagogy 9. Theodor Adorno: ‘Education after Auschwitz’ – Contributions towards a critical social work pedagogy 10. Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy for critical consciousness and practice 11. Teaching democracy in the social work and human service classroom: Inspiration from Myles Horton and the Highlander Folk School 12. Pedagogy and power through a Foucauldian lens 13. ‘A social work counter-pedagogy yet-to-come’: Jacques Derrida and critical social work education and practice 14. From privileged irresponsibility to shared responsibility for social injustice: The contribution of Joan Tronto and Iris Marion Young to critical pedagogies of privilege 15. Critical social work education as democratic Paideia: Inspiration from Cornelius Castoriadis to educate for democracy and autonomy 16. Sociology for the people: Dorothy Smith’s Sociology for Social Work 17. Henry Giroux’s vision of critical pedagogy: Educating social work activists for a radical democracy .../part contents