Linking the Human Rights and Ecosocial Paradigms in Social Work Education: An Example from Practice

Abstract

The chapter introduces a new teaching concept on the link between human rights-based social work and the ecosocial paradigm. In Germany, the discussion on ecosocial work has just recently started, and teaching human rights and ecosocial approaches is a new field in social work education. The teaching concept was put in practice in 2022 within the master program “Social Work as a Human Rights Profession” at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin. The seminar focused on the link between human rights, sustainability, and the natural environment, providing a theoretical foundation on the key concepts and discussing how to combine a human rights and an ecosocial perspective in social work practice.