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Professor Chou, Yueh-Ching ( 授課教師：周月清 )
Time : Thursday 1:20pm-15:10pm
Room : Nursing Building 401R
Email: choucyc@ym.edu.tw
TEL: 28267182
Office hour: Tuesday 9:00-12:00pm and by appointment
Office: N607 (Nursing Building)
Course Description:
Two emphases of this course are: (1) the ideologies of social welfare policies and services; and (2) the major social welfare policies and programs in Taiwan and internationally, their emergence, development, contemporary operations, and how their ideologies and social context behind, including structural, political, economic, legal-precedential, cultural variables related .
The exploration of social welfare ideologies will focus on comparison between liberalism, capitalism, socialism, Marxism, social democratic, the middle way, feminism and post-modernism. Major fields of social welfare policies and services will be included such as: income security, health care, child welfare, and services to the disabled and older people including care issues.
With respect to multiculturalism and diversity, the issues such as social class, ability/disability, age, color, culture, ethnicity, family structure, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion or spirituality, sex, and sexual orientation will be discussed throughout the sessions.
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Course Objectives:
At the end of this course, students are expected:
1.
to gain the knowledge of welfare ideologies, political, economic and culture related to how social welfare policies and services formulated and delivered;
2.
to be able to criticize and analyze how the social context and welfare ideologies shape social welfare policies and services in own country and internationally;
3.
to have an overview about how current social welfare policies and services in
Taiwan and internationally;
4.
to be able to discuss the strengths and limitations of the current social welfare system in terms of the functions of the provision of basic needs and social rights of the vulnerable in the local and international analyses; and
5.
to become a global citizen with multi-cultural perspectives and social justice by engaging in policy-base solution at the local, national, international, and global levels.
Methods and climate:
Course Design:
Teaching methods. Various classroom teaching strategies will be used, including lecture, multimedia presentations, video documentaries, small and large group discussion, and presentations by students (with small group) and guest lecturers.
Presenting and leading the discussion.
Students (working in small groups) will be responsible for leading the discussion from the reading package for the topics in the responsible session (this will be decided in the first session). Small groups, readings and discussion chairing will be set in the first session of the course.
Accessing E-campus. Students will also be required to participate in the online portion of our course using e-campus where announcements, handouts and discussion posts including the ppt handouts of the presentations by responsible small groups will be uploaded.
The responsibilities of the students and the instructor of the class:
1. coming to sessions on time and prepared to participate (late arrival to class is disruptive and should be avoided);
2. respecting the views and learning needs of other students;
3. working with students and/or the instructor to resolve any problems that may come up during the course; and
4. be happy and +.
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Learning climate between teaching and learning:
The main goal of this course is to build up together a “Teaching and Learning” environment which results from contributions from and open interaction between all members of the class, the students as well as the instructor. We can learn from one another, but we must each recognize our responsibilities to the group and our contribution to the dynamics of the class.
Assessment:
Active participation in discussion: 20%
Attendance in the symposium “Care, work and migration” (November 11 and 12):
10%
Presentation of the session and leading the discussion: 20%
Final presentation—: 20%
Final written paper (5-10 pages) (+ the feedback from the Spring Workshop—2 pages)—30%
Two presentations will be evaluated by the all participants of the class (the students and the instructor).
Required Readings:
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Esping-Andersen, G. (1990). The three political economies of the welfare state. In
The three worlds of welfare capitalism (Chapter 1) (pp. 9–34). New Jersey:
Princeton University Press.
2.
Esping-Andersen, G. (1990). De-commodification in social policy. In The three worlds of welfare capitalism (Chapter 2) (pp.35-54). New Jersey: Princeton
University Press.
3.
Dye, T. R. (2012). Understanding public policy (14 th
ed.) (Ch. 1). Upper Saddle
River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
4.
Gilbert, N., & Terrell, P. (2012). Dimensions of social welfare policy (7 th
ed.).
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
5.
Chou, Y. C., Haj-Yahia, M. M., Wang, F., T. Y., & Fu, L. Y. (2006). Social Work in
Taiwan: An Historical and Critical Review. International Social Work, 49 (6),
767-778.
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Eydal, Guðný Björk & Kröger, Teppo (2010) Nordic Family Policies:
Constructing Contexts for Social Work with Families. In Forsberg, Hannele &
Kröger, Teppo (eds.)
Social Work and Child Welfare Politics: Through Nordic
Lenses (pp. 11-27). Bristol: Policy Press.
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7.
Fraser, N. (2000). After the family wage: A postindustrial thought experiment. In
B. Hobson (Ed.), Gender and Citizenship in Transition (pp.1-32). New York:
Routledge.
8.
Chou, Yueh-Ching* , Toshiko Nakano, Heng-Hao Chang and Li-Fang Liang (2013).
Parent-carers in Taiwan and Japan: lifelong caring responsibilities within a familistic welfare system.
In T. Kroger & S. Yeandle (Eds.) Combining paid work and family care: Policies and experiences in international perspective (chapter 8).
Bristol: Policy Press.
9.
Tamiya, N., Noguchi, H., Nishi, A., Reich, M. R., Ikegami, N., Hashimoto, H.,
Shibuya, K., Kawachi, I., Campebell, J. C. (2011). Population ageing and wellbeing: Lessons from Japan’s long-term care insurance policy. Lancet, 378,
1183–92.
10.
Kröger, T., & Yeandle, S. (2013).
Reconciling work and care: an international analysis. In T. Kroger & S. Yeandle (Eds.) Combining Paid Work and Family Care:
Policies and Experiences in Nordic, Liberal and East Asian Welfare States . UK:
Policy Press.
11.
Williams, F., & Brennan, D. (2012). Care, Markets and Migration in a Globalising
World: Introduction to the Special Issue. Journal of European Social Policy, 22 (4),
377-391.
Session
Date Topic/activity
(M/D)
1 （ 9/18 ） Introduction to the course; expectations of this class; small group set up--which group will be responsible for the readings, presentation and will lead the discussion
Home work/prepare for session 2: Library and internet searching:
Small group presentation and discussion for the home work in session 2
2 （ 9/25 ） Definitions:
1.
social welfare, welfare state, social welfare policy, social services, social work; scope of social welfare, social care, health care;
2.
residual and institutional social welfare; universal or selective based welfare model; individualism or collectivism ideology;
Instructor
Hours
中文 /English
2 Chou
周月清
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Three pillars of welfare: Family, market and state
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3 （ 10/2 ）
Ideology of social welfare:
(1) Liberalism, New Right/Neo-liberalism, Capitalism （ I ） ;
(2) Marxism, socialism; right/right wing vs leftist/left wing
（ II ）
Source: Library, internet, videos from Youtube
4 （ 10/9 ） Ideology of social welfare:
(3) Social Democratic, the Middle Way （ III ）
(4) Feminism; postmodernism (IV)
Source: Library, internet, videos from Youtube
5 （ 10/16 ） policy (I) (Esping-Andersen, 1990, ch. 1 & 2)
6 （ 10/23 ）
Readings: Dye (2012), ch.1
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10/30
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Readings: Gilbert & Terrell (2012), ch.1
8 （ 11/6 ）
History of social welfare/social work in Taiwan
Reading: Chou et al. (2006)
9 （ 11/13 ）
(November 11 and 12—at least for two sessions)
Reading: Migrant care workers: global care crisis (Williams
& Brennan, 2012)
Assignment: write a short essay (2 pages) about your feedback/comments to the conference after the participation
10 11/20 Family policy and child care in Nordic countries
Reading: Eydal & Kroger, 2011
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11/27
） system: Japan and Taiwan
Reading: Chou et al., 2013
12 （ 12/4 ）
Reading: Tamiya et al., 2011 and handouts
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13 12/11 Working carers in Nordic, liberal democratic and East Asian welfare regimes (Kröger & Yeandle, 2013, chapter 12)
14 (12/18) Disabled people and independent living
15 12/25 Students’ presentation
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