SWK2112 Australian Politics Sustainability Paper
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SWK2112 Australian Politics Sustainability paperThis unit looks at eco social workLook at the transformation for social workers in sustainabilityLook on black board fro pro’s re deregulationResearch waste of resources Equality for students Why is eco social work an issueWhy is understanding power and value Theoretical frameworksOr link to ideologyEco justice for sustainability and the tensionsExplore ideas and tease out the issuesLook at arguments on eco sustainabilityin de regulation of public universitiesAre there financial implicationsGOOGLE US committee for eco respondsSmall G green environmental ideashttp://www.ecosocialwork.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=66http://www1.uwindsor.ca/criticalsocialwork/social-work-and-the-environment-understanding-people-and-placehttp://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195389678/obo-9780195389678-0092.xmlhttp://www.ecosocialwork.org/This paper explores an introduction to sustainability and deregulation of public universities. In looking to the future we look at an increasing number of people who realize the degradation of the environment and how this will test growing success and economic justice. A succession of United Nations conferences and NGO (Non-Governmental Organizations) meetings in the 1990s delivered an outline in which the consequence and effects of sustainability have been explained, In these key global events representatives of governments, professional, and civil society have met to wrestle with the path of change. They formed a series of global understandings, including: Agenda 21. The global understandings developed with U.S government input, set favorable policy directions for a sustainable future (Clugston, 1996). Agenda 21, adopted by the 1992 Earth Summit, highlights that human population, utilization and technology are the principal driving powers of environmental change. Agenda 21 additionally states “education is critical for promoting sustainable development and improving the capacity of all people to address environment and development issues”(Agenda 21,1994).An undertaking to uphold sustainability in higher education.
An important effort to outline the sustainable university was made in 1990 with the Talloires Declaration. Jean Mayer, the president of Tufts, convened twenty-two university leaser in Tailloires, France, to declarae their interests about the state of the world and generate detail that suggested key movements universities must take to construct a sustainable future. Understanding the absence of professionals in environmental management and associated fields, as well as the absence of comprehension by professional in all fields. Their effect on the environment and public health, this assembly demarcated the function of the university in the resulting way. “Universities educate most of the people who develop and manage societies institutions. For this reason, universities bear profound responsibilities to increase the awareness, knowledge, technologies, and tools to create an environmentally sustainable future” (Report and Declaration of the Presidents Conference,1990).Until recently, it was likely that the new possibility of limited fee deregulation might still have put universities in a better situation than the suggested cuts. Then the prime minister weighed in.In the Leaders' Debate on 17 June, Malcolm Turnbull made clear that deregulation would only be for a “small number” of flagship courses.So what had been only an possibility now progressed to policy.Given all this, why have Labor (and the Greens, and Nick Xenophon) not made more of an issue that was clearly playing well for them in 2014-2015?After all, universities will face major cuts which will only be substantially alleviated if students are slugged instead. And if universities are not to be cut at all, the student fee increases could be as much as 30%, which sounds like the sort of thing that students might protest against. One possible explanation is that it takes two to tango, and with the Coalition keen to keep higher education out of the campaign there is only so much power to be had byrepeated references to it.WHATS MISSINGThere is the the view that the two major parties have much in common on higher education.Another is that news editors do not think higher education is sufficiently front of mind for electors to warrant extensive coverage in the general media, particularly if no one is occupying a university administration building at the time.Another is that the newsflash set has only so many column inches or air-time minutes open, and events in Europe and the US have been using up oxygen.Another could be that Universities Australia, the peak body, continues to be in a problematic situation and cannot support effective opposition. UA likes to remain politically unbiased, its member universities have divergent interests, and it wants tobe on good terms with whoever is the incoming government. So attack ads in an election campaign are not really their bag. (Such anxieties do not seem afflict other bodies, like the Australian Medical Association, however.)Whatever the reason, it is an inexcusable situation. Universities are vital to the future of a cultured and prosperous society. They face major cuts which could only
be fully prevented if students pay more. But Australian students already pay a higherproportion of the costs of their education than in much of the developed world.One could be forgiven for not protesting in 2013, when Tony Abbott looked into the camera shortly before the election and said there would be no cuts to education.But now we know there will be cuts if they are re-elected (it won’t be a breach of an election promise) and no one is protesting. It is a curious incident.(Paehlke, 2001).(Kondrat, 2002).What is MalthusianThe Brundtland report (United Nations, 1987), titled Our Common Future, places ecological sustainability on an equal footing with social and economic sustainability. (Midgley & Conley, 2010).Sen’s theories of functioning and capabilities (Sen, 2000 (Mohan, 2007) The social work profession is strongly founded on human rights values. Social work interventions at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels are scrutinized for violation of human rights standards. In particular, there have been more recent affirmations from the Council on Social Work Education and the National Association of Social Workers role is to to mandate that human rights norms and values are not defied. The teaching of human rights also is an integral part of the social work curriculum in Australia.Ecological sustainability views the situation as a self-motivated outcome resulting from collaboration among all components that inhabit the ecosystem (Coates, 2005).The importance on theories such as systems and person-in-environment reflect the deep rootedness of this method in social work (Green & McDermott, 2010). The ecological sustainability method is lacking in that it does not take into thought the role of power (Dominelli, 2012).The Brundtland commission report clearly
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