This is the programme and details for this event for lecturers teaching
comparative social policy.

Teaching Comparative Social Policy

A study day for HE lecturers jointly organised by
The Social Policy Association and the Social Policy and Social Work 
subject centre (SWAPltsn)

at London Guildhall University

on Wednesday June 19th 2002

A resource pack will be available for all participants

Cost: £20 (includes lunch, tea and coffee and resource pack)

To register: contact Mary Locke, e-mail: [log in to unmask] or by post 
SWAPltsn, Faculty of Social Science, University of Southampton, S017 1BT
Or register on-line through www.swap.ac.uk


PROGRAMME FOR THE DAY

10.00 - 10.30	Registration and coffee	
10.30 - 10.45	Welcome and introduction, Maggie May, SPA and 
Pat Young, SWAPltsn
10.45 - 11.30	Workshop 1: Depth vs breadth in European social policy 
Emma Carmel, University of Bath 
11.30 - 12.15	Workshop 2: Analytical Frameworks as a basis for 
teaching Social Policy Workshop, Zoe Irving, University of Sheffield
12.15 - 13.00	Workshop 3: Globalisation and the use of Internet 
resources	Rob Sykes, Sheffield Hallam University 
13.00 - 13.45	LUNCH	
13.45 - 15.00 	Workshop 4: Islam and Social Policy	Hartley Dean 
and Zafar Khan, University of Luton
15.00 - 16.00 	Presentation : The pleasures and problems of teaching 
comparative social policy
Followed by Discussion	Jochen Clasen, Stirling University

 
Information on workshops and workshop leaders

Emma Carmel	Workshop 1: Depth vs breadth in European social policy

This session discusses some of the choices to be made when teaching 
comparative social policy, and considers whether these choices 
necessarily involve trade-offs. In particular, it addresses the 
following questions: How can we ensure that students gain appropriate 
breadth of knowledge of, for example, several welfare systems, while 
also providing them with the tools to critically evaluate particular 
policy developments?  How do we choose which policies, services or 
issues to address? How can we also enable students to identify the
Contexts to policy change? Can we teach comparative social policy 
without discussing the methodologies of comparative analysis?

Dr Emma Carmel is lecturer in social policy at the University of Bath, 
and assistant editor of the Journal of European Social Policy. She has 
published on cross-national research methods. Her research interests 
include the transformation of social democratic politics in Western 
Europe (specialising in Germany and the UK); politics,policy and 
discourse in the changing governance of welfare capitalism; and the
Socio-political regulation of 'skilled' labour migration into the 
European Union.

Zoe Irving	Workshop 2: Analytical frameworks as a basis for 
teaching Social Policy

This session will illustrate a key issue arising in the teaching of 
comparative social policy: the extent to which students need, and are 
able to engage with, understand, and apply theoretical frameworks. It 
will describe an attempt to integrate use of mainstream, feminist and 
'citizenship' related analytical frameworks into class teaching, 
student led country comparisons and assessment. Discussion will focus 
on ways in which theory can be made accessible to students - can the 
study of Esping-Andersen's three worlds be fun?

Dr Zoe Irving is a researcher with SWAPltsn and lecturer in Social 
Policy at University of Sheffield, having taught  Comparative Social 
Policy for several years at Leeds Metropolitan University. She has 
published her work male part-time employment in international contexts

Rob Sykes	Workshop 3: Globalisation and the Use of Internet 
Resources

This session will focus upon existing modules, and the development of a
new module all with content focusing upon comparative social policy, 
globalization studies, and European social policy and social 
structures.  It will combine a review of the issues around learning and
teaching which have arisen in the delivery of the existing modules, 
suggest how internet resources can best be integrated into the learning
experience of students, and provide some examples of how a particular 
web-based Virtual Learning Environment (Blackboard) is being used both 
in an existing module, and (hopefully!) for a new module entitled 
European Social Policy in a Global Context.

Rob Sykes is Principal Lecturer in Social Policy, SHU, teaching 
comparative and European social policy. He has recently published 
Sykes, R, Palier, B. & Prior, P.M. (eds) (2001) Globalization and 
European welfare states, Basingstoke: Macmillan.  Rob is a member of 
the executive committee of the Social Policy Association, lead editor 
of SPA's 'Social Policy Review' (2000-2002) and a member of the 
editorial board of 'Journal of Social Policy' and 'Social Policy and 
Society'
Hartley Dean and Zafar Khan	 Workshop 4: Islam and Social Policy

The session will fall into two parts. 
The first, to be led by Hartley Dean, will consider the relevance of 
Islam generally within the Social Policy curriculum. It will address 
the nature of Islam in its global context as a welfare ideology; 
welfare issues affecting diasporic Muslim communities; Social Policy 
and the state in Muslim countries; where and how to locate these issues
within the curriculum. 
The second part of the session will be led by Zafar Khan and will focus
on specific issues associated with teaching about Islam. It will 
outline the approach adopted in an innovative module on Islam and 
Modernity currently taught at the University of Luton; discuss how, in 
the classroom, to handle some of the controversies that exist within 
Islam; identify some of the issues associated with teaching Muslim 
students. There will be short presentations by each facilitator, 
followed by open discussion in which participants will be invited to 
share their experiences.

The facilitators: Hartley Dean and Zafar Khan were authors of the 1997 
article, 'Muslim perspectives on welfare', in Journal of Social Policy,
26(2). 
Hartley is currently Honorary Professor of Social Policy at University 
of Luton: his recent publications include Poverty, Riches and Social 
Citizenship (1999, Macmillan) and Welfare Rights and Social Policy 
(2002,Pearson Education).
 Zafar Khan is Senior Lecturer in Community Relations and South Asian 
Studies at the University of Luton: his recent publications include a 
2000 article on 'Muslim presence in Europe' in 
Current Sociology and a chapter on 'Kashmiri diaspora' in Ali, N. and 
Koser, K. (eds) New Approaches to Migration (2002, Routledge).

Jochen Clasen	Presentation : The pleasures and problems of teaching 
comparative social policy
Followed by Discussion
Jochen Clasen is the Director of the Centre for Comparative Research in
Social Welfare at Stirling University where recent projects have 
focused on social protection, labour markets and disability across 
different national contexts. He also directs the Marie Curie Training 
Site for Doctoral Fellows working on comparative social research. 
Jochen has published many articles and books on comparative social 
policy, including the popular Comparative Social Policy: concepts, 
theories and methods, (Blackwell 1999) 




Cost: £20 (includes lunch, tea and coffee)

To register: contact Mary Locke, e-mail: [log in to unmask] or by post 
SWAPltsn, Faculty of Social Science, University of Southampton, S017 1BT
Or register on-line through www.swap.ac.uk

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