Implications of the ethics of care for the supervision of the TFG in Social Work: towards a transformative view of sustainability

As in other areas, sustainability has gained increasing attention in the field of social work education. Nevertheless, various voices consider that perspectives of sustainability are needed that are more radical than those inspired exclusively by the 2030 Agenda. In this context, the research and innovationundertaken explores the specific potential and implications of ethics of care for adopting a transformative perspective of sustainability. To this end, a framework is proposed based on key ideas on the ethics of care, which can be useful in order to explore its implications in social work education. Then, it explores the case of social work studies in the University of Valencia (Spain). Specifically, the research addresses how ethics of care is or can be adopted in the supervision of the final end-of-degree projects or dissertations (Trabajos Final de Grado). This exploration draws on the perspectives of experts and of teachers from the Social Work Department. The results show that the implications of adopting ethics of care in social work teaching may relate with very different aspects, from political commitment and the construction of identities to relations with peers, teachers, the community and the natural environment.