Philip Dearman

ICTs and Professional Autonomy

A Genealogy of Social Casework Recording

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The advance of ICTs in the human services has generated
many concerns, including a proposition that professional autonomy
is necessarily compromised. Database systems, and the associated
managerialist scrutiny, enable a dehumanising intrusion into the
worker/client relations that constitute social casework. ICTs and
Professional Autonomy responds to this concern by tracing the
historically developed shift from the rituals of self-reflection
attached to process recording through to the risk management
calculations associated with desktop recording. Dearman s
conclusion, based on a post-structuralist analytics of power and
knowledge, is that autonomy is not simply a matter of principled
freedom from managerial power but rather a disposition to act,
which in turn is an outcome of different forms of engagement with
changing techniques of representation. As recording practices have
shifted, from a profound reliance on process and self-reflection to
an abbreviated keying of relevant information , so too has the
nature of real relations between professional labour and
management, and so too has the capacity of professional social
workers for self-mastery .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 334g
• ISBN-13: 9783639128413
• ISBN-10: 3639128419
• Artikelnr.: 26053236

Autorenporträt

Philip Dearman teaches Communications and Writing in the Faculty
of Arts at Monash
University, Australia. He researches the histories of
communications technologies, with
a particular focus on the (re)negotiation of relations of power
in the workplace.