The Practice Guide

Participation and reflexivity are understood in this Practice Guide as twins because of the complexity of life situations in social work education, practice, and research. These can be enriched by listening to different voices and contributing to fairer organizational, social, and political decisions. A continuous shared reflection on various aspects of who, why, under what conditions and how participation can occur is more likely to lead to good results in reflexive participative partnership. 

In this practice guide, we have presented the key ideas, small suggestions and examples of using reflexivity and participation in different contexts of the social and healthcare field. It results from experiences, discussions, and case studies from the international cooperation of five partners - social work universities/schools from representative parts of Europe. Because of our partners' rich variety of historical, socioeconomic, and political backgrounds, we hope the presented RPP scheme and related ideas and proposals can inspire various situations and contexts. You, the readers, teachers, students, practitioners, or community actors, are called upon to look for ways to strengthen participation for shared organizational, social and or political goals. 

To those who want to go deeper, we recommend reading the other outcomes of the Erasmus INORP project, which are available at the link to the website and MOOC and its rich references to other resources.