Polder

 

Welfare

Links NHL Welfare studies l Universität Bielefeld l Social Work & Society l European Journal of Social Work l Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare & Sport l Info about The Netherlands l Fundacja SIC! l

Articles & Abstracts

Worksite of Willem Blok (Netherlands)on social work, social policy and citizen participation

 

The term polderwelfare is invented and described by Willem Blok of NHL University of professional education in Leeuwarden. Polderwelfare is a variation on the economical term "poldermodel". Polderwelfare is related to the current state of development in social security, care & welfare in The Netherlands. See the definition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

  Recent articles

 

- Market, Management &

  Profession

  Social Business in the Polder

  Willem Blok

 

- Community Work is only the

  beginning

  Toward a system of Modern

  Social Work in Poland

  Willem Blok

 

  Recent abstracts

 

- The Netherlands Today - A

  Social Portrait of the Lowlands

  Dutch night in the Cristian

  Reformed Church of Orangeville,

  Ontario, Canada

  on Friday October 28, 2005

 

- The democratic functions

  of Social Work

  Abstract of lecture in London,

  Canada for the School of Social

  Work of Kings College, University

  of Western Ontario,

  on Tuesday, October 18, 2005

 

- Three of a kind: modern social

  work, local social policy &

  citizen participation

  Paper for the International Summer

  Academy (TiSSA) in Gdansk,

  Poland,

  August 28, 2005

 

- Toward modern social work &

  social policy in the local

  community

  Abstract of lecture in Kaunas,

  Lithuania on March 2, 2005

 

 

 

- The Social Innovation Centre in

  Poland: building an instrument

  for modernization of social work

  & local social policy

  Abstract for the IUCISD-

  Conference: “Face of research in

  European Social Development:

  aims, results, impacts”, in Graz,

  Austria,

  23-25 September 2004.

 

- Toward more democracy and

  active citizenship in Polish

  society

  Paper for Conference Economic

  Academy Poznan, Poland,

  November 27, 2003

 

- Strategies for Modernization of

  Social Work in a uniting Europe

  Paper for International Summer

  Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia,

  August 2003

 

- Polderwelfare: Market

  mechanism in Social Work - A

  description & critical analysis of

  the state of affairs in The

  Netherlands

  Abstract lecture in London, Canada

  for the School of Social Work of

  Kings College, University of

  Western Ontario,

  on Tuesday October 15, 2002