LIBRI DI GIUSEPPE MORO

Il presente lavoro intende contribuire al vivace dibattito sui punti di forza e sulle criticità dell’adozione mite passando in rassegna alcune ricerche condotte da un gruppo di ricercatori dell’Università di Bari, che hanno valutato i percorsi e gli esiti di sviluppo di un campione di ragazzi adottati con la formula mite. Dopo aver presentato i principali risultati ottenuti da questi studi, a partire dai dati empirici disponibili vengono avanzate possibili ipotesi utili a spiegare gli esiti di sviluppo associati all’esperienza dell’adozione mite che si sono rivelati meno favorevoli se confrontati con quelli osservati nei ragazzi adottati con la formula legittimante.

Consapevoli che il lavoro degli assistenti sociali, in quanto professione, ha una forte e indispensabile valenza etica, gli autori analizzano il nuovo Codice deontologico nei suoi aspetti contenutistici e attraverso la lente dei cambiamenti sociali, dell’innovazione tecnologica e dello sviluppo sostenibile. Un testo utile per gli studenti di Servizio Sociale e gli assistenti sociali, ma anche per i responsabili dei servizi sociali, per i docenti e i formatori e, in generale, per tutti coloro che desiderano accrescere le proprie conoscenze in questo ambito.

The paper examines work-life balance voucher experienced in Apulia Region to purchase services for children, adolescents, elderly and disabled users. Combining data from desk analysis and evaluation studies, the authors categorize measure’s outputs and outcomes in order to evaluate if it represents an innovative intervention in family work-family balance area. Results show that the measure has promote services’ accessibility and has indirectly improved their quality. According to a social investment approach, the measure guarantees the quality of care services but has proved not its effectiveness in promoting women’s’ employment. However, BSC for children and adolescents seem to stimulate equal opportunities and rebalance the distribution of family responsibilities. Examining BSC strengthens and weaknesses, the authors argue their innovative elements and potentials.

Questa originale raccolta di studi propone –in una sorta di laboratorio ideale – diversi approcci d’indagine sulla questione fondamentale e intricata delle relazioni umane esaminata in contesti di vario tipo. Un testo per studenti, pedagogisti; educatori; formatori, psicologi della comunicazione e delle relazioni umane, psicologi sociali, del lavoro, delle organizzazioni, storici, sociologi, politologi, criminologi e tutti coloro che si occupano del rapporto fra territorio, cultura, tradizione, istituzioni e modernità.

In this article the author upholds that evaluation may become itself a factor of innovation: by bringing data to inform and guide ongoing decision making as part of an innovative process; if it is designed to empower people and to improve their programs using a form of self-evaluation and reflection while social action is unfolding; by helping people to reconstruct their experiences finding new meanings to deepen sense of their actions and to understand better what it means to be leaders of an innovative process in the context of welfare programs. To play this role evaluation must have a complex vision both of context in which innovation emerges and of innovation generative and diffusive process.

In this article the author upholds that evaluation may become itself a factor of innovation: by bringing data to inform and guide ongoing decision making as part of an innovative process; if it is designed to empower people and to improve their programs using a form of self-evaluation and reflection while social action is unfolding; by helping people to reconstruct their experiences finding new meanings to deepen sense of their actions and to understand better what it means to be leaders of an innovative process in the context of welfare programs. To play this role evaluation must have a complex vision both of context in which innovation emerges and of innovation generative and diffusive process.

A redefinition of welfare policies characterizes the current phase in all European countries. To prevent that this crisis could increase the already strong disparities between countries (and within individual countries) it is important to better understand what is happening, and to find a common platform for analysis and comparison. This book tries to start the discussion on these themes involving colleagues who are working to investigate this process of transformation within Europe.