This up-to-date reference work explores theories, methods and practices of social work management education in higher education. It includes contributions from more than 30 scholars and researchers in the field of social work management education from more than 10 countries and 4 continents.The work is unique as it overcomes current barriers between the different sub-disciplines of social work didactics and management education, and takes into consideration the development of a discipline-specific Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). The integrated and transdisciplinary approach to social work management education presented in this edited volume is of paramount importance to international scholars, teachers, practitioners, students and all other audiences interested in the field of education. The work provides an overview of the theoretical principles on how social work management can be taught and learned, and analyzes curricula, pedagogical approaches, actors, and socio-economic and institutional contexts of social work management at higher education institutions

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction.- I. Foundations of Teaching and Learning in Social Work Management.- 2. Foundations of a Social Work Management Education – A Discipline-Specific Framework for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.- 3. Applying Threshold Concept Theory in Social Work Management Education.- 4. Systematic Didactics to Academic Teaching and Learning in the Field of Social Work Management.- 5. Thinking Social Economy from the Social Side – A mutual Relationship between Social Work and Management.- II. Socio-Economic Conditions and Institutional Contexts for Social Work Management Education in Different Countries.- 6. COVID-19 and Emotional Analysis: Socio-Economic Conditions and Social Work Interventions in India.- 7. Introducing creativity and imagination into social workers’ curricula in Italy: Conceptual and practical aspects.- 8. Resilience as a resource in the course of studies and in professional life of Social Work Managers in Germany.- 9. About the Importance ofInterdisciplinarity and Resonance in Teaching and Learning in Social Work Management in Germany.- 10. Internationalisation in Higher Education – focused on Social Work Management in Austria.- III. Methods of Teaching and Learning.- 11. Fieldwork and supervision as a teaching method and learning strategy in Social Work: Innovation in the training of social work student supervisors.- 12. Learning Empirical Research: Method, Competence and Attitude on the way to Professional Social Work.- 13. Promoting Civic Engagement in Social Work Research Education.- 14. Teaching Social Work Management through Service Learning.- 15. Teaching testable explanations and putting them into practice.- 16. Experiences in immersive learning environments: Potentials and Challenges of VR and AR Technologies in Social Work Management Education.- 17. The E-Pedagogy of Social Work Management in Distance Education in Africa.- 18. Learning hybrid by doing hybrid: Teaching critical digital skills in a safe learning space.- IV. Best Practices and Country-Specific Case Studies.- 19. From Campus to Online  –  Reflections of Social work education in a German-Swedish context.- 20.  The "learning factory", or how to teach learning for people who have forgotten to learn.- 21. Values Building in Social Work Education in V4 countries.- 22. Analysis of Mission Statements of Social Service Organisations as Practical Anthropology – An Example from the Teaching in Social Work Management.- 23. Promoting self-determination and motivation as leadership skills: A didactic to strengthen autonomy support and the importance of role models in German Social Work Management Education.- 24. Professional Social Work within Formal Institutions: Lessons Learnt from Sri Lanka.- 25. An interwoven tapestry: Teaching social work and management theory and practice in New Zealand.