Phillip Ablett
Biographic Data
| ID | 4419437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phillip Ablett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phillip |
| FAMILY NAME | Ablett |
| SIGNATURE | ABLETT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Sunshine Coast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1574-0613 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Australian social work education in the neoliberal university
This article explores the impacts of the neoliberal university on Australian social work education and academics. It presents a critical analysis of empirical data derived from a national qualitative study involving 30 interviews with Australian social work educators. In particular, it discusses the rise of managerial-administrative control within universities, the impacts on teaching and curriculum (including the emergence of student consumer cu…
Routledge Handbook of Critical Pedagogies for Social Work
Technicist education
This article seeks to explicate one form of technical rationality (ie the technological development of robotics) in social work education and practice. As advances in robotics evolve, questions are raised about the role of technicist education in reducing social work practice to a set of tasks that are repeatable, formulaic and linear (ie tasks that robots are capable of performing). We conduct a critical synthesis of the literature to explore ho…
Social work as revolutionary praxis? The contribution to critical practice of Cornelius Castoriadis’s political philosophy
Social work is a contested tradition, torn between the demands of social governance and autonomy. Today, this struggle is reflected in the division between the dominant, neoliberal agenda of service provision and the resistance offered by various critical perspectives employed by disparate groups of practitioners serving diverse communities. Critical social work challenges oppressive conditions and discourses, in addition to addressing their cons…
Castoriadis, Cornelius (1922–1997)
This entry highlights the contribution to sociological theory of the work of Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997), the Greco‐French philosopher, economist, psychoanalyst, and post‐Marxist revolutionary. After growing up amid dictatorship and war in Greece, Castoriadis went to study philosophy in Paris, cofounding the libertarian‐socialist group and journal Socialisme ou Barbarie (1949–1967), many of whose ideas influenced the 1968 worker‐student upr…
Castoriadis, Cornelius (1922–1997)
Cornelius Castoriadis was a Greco‐French philosopher, economist, psychoanalyst, social theorist, and post‐Marxist revolutionary. Born in Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1922, Castoriadis grew up in Greece amid dictatorship, invasions, and civil war. Educated in philosophy, law, and politics at the University of Athens, Castoriadis fought the Nazis as part of the communist, and later Trotskyist, resistance. In 1945 Castoriadis went to study in Paris,…
Technicist education
This article seeks to explicate one form of technical rationality (ie the technological development of robotics) in social work education and practice. As advances in robotics evolve, questions are raised about the role of technicist education in reducing social work practice to a set of tasks that are repeatable, formulaic and linear (ie tasks that robots are capable of performing). We conduct a critical synthesis of the literature to explore ho…
Social work as revolutionary praxis? The contribution to critical practice of Cornelius Castoriadis’s political philosophy
Social work is a contested tradition, torn between the demands of social governance and autonomy. Today, this struggle is reflected in the division between the dominant, neoliberal agenda of service provision and the resistance offered by various critical perspectives employed by disparate groups of practitioners serving diverse communities. Critical social work challenges oppressive conditions and discourses, in addition to addressing their cons…
Castoriadis, Cornelius (1922–1997)
Cornelius Castoriadis was a Greco‐French philosopher, economist, psychoanalyst, social theorist, and post‐Marxist revolutionary. Born in Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1922, Castoriadis grew up in Greece amid dictatorship, invasions, and civil war. Educated in philosophy, law, and politics at the University of Athens, Castoriadis fought the Nazis as part of the communist, and later Trotskyist, resistance. In 1945 Castoriadis went to study in Paris,…
Castoriadis, Cornelius (1922–1997)
This entry highlights the contribution to sociological theory of the work of Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997), the Greco‐French philosopher, economist, psychoanalyst, and post‐Marxist revolutionary. After growing up amid dictatorship and war in Greece, Castoriadis went to study philosophy in Paris, cofounding the libertarian‐socialist group and journal Socialisme ou Barbarie (1949–1967), many of whose ideas influenced the 1968 worker‐student upr…
Technicist education
This article seeks to explicate one form of technical rationality (ie the technological development of robotics) in social work education and practice. As advances in robotics evolve, questions are raised about the role of technicist education in reducing social work practice to a set of tasks that are repeatable, formulaic and linear (ie tasks that robots are capable of performing). We conduct a critical synthesis of the literature to explore ho…
Social work as revolutionary praxis? The contribution to critical practice of Cornelius Castoriadis’s political philosophy
Social work is a contested tradition, torn between the demands of social governance and autonomy. Today, this struggle is reflected in the division between the dominant, neoliberal agenda of service provision and the resistance offered by various critical perspectives employed by disparate groups of practitioners serving diverse communities. Critical social work challenges oppressive conditions and discourses, in addition to addressing their cons…
Routledge Handbook of Critical Pedagogies for Social Work
Australian social work education in the neoliberal university
This article explores the impacts of the neoliberal university on Australian social work education and academics. It presents a critical analysis of empirical data derived from a national qualitative study involving 30 interviews with Australian social work educators. In particular, it discusses the rise of managerial-administrative control within universities, the impacts on teaching and curriculum (including the emergence of student consumer cu…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Autonomy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social Work (3 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (3 works) · Democracy (2 works)