Human Rights and Social Justice: Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Professions has a unique perspective that views human rights as the bedrock of social justice. It provides a clear blueprint how human rights and social justice concerns can serve as a conceptual framework for policy and practice interventions among the helping and health professions.
Joseph Wronka is Professor of Social Work, Springfield College, Springfield; MA; Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, for the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), which has special consultative status with ECOSOC; and Principal Investigator of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Project,which originated in the Center for Social Change at Brandeis University, in the Heller School. He has taught human rights, social policy,social justice, qualitative research, humanistic and existential-phenomenological psychology. and other courses in the helping and health professions for roughly 25 years. He has done research on the world of the street musician, while living in the South of France in his twenties. it was a participatory-action project, where he played his accordion in the streets. He also lived in the arctic and subarctic regions of Alaska in his thirties where he worked in primarily an Indigenous community developing a generalist counseling program among other things. He has also worked in areas of extreme poverty, such as the inner cities of New York and for some time in Appalachia and Mississippi. His doctorate in social policy is from Brandeis, the Heller School.
He is the author of four books: Human rights and social policy in the 21st century: A history of the idea of human rights and comparison of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with United States federal and state constitutions (University Press of America, 1998); the Dr. Ambedkar Lectures on the Theme Creating a Human Rights Culture (National Institute of Social Sciences and Social Work, Bhubenaswar India, 2002; and Human Rights and Social Justice: Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Professions (Sage, 2008). (Note that Human Rights and Social Justice does come with an Instructor's Manual, lecture notes, powerpoints, examination questions, but you need to be a professor. If interested, please go to the Sage website at: www.sagepub.com and enter author's name "Wronka".)
He loves the outdoors (as you can tell from the photo, like kayaking, bicycling, swimming and his homepage is: www.humanrightsculture.org
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