Jane Fenton is Emeritus Professor of Social Work Education at the University of Dundee. She began her academic career 20 years ago, after 13 years in social work practice, specialising in community justice social work.
Jane’s enduring social work research and scholarship has centred on social work values and their expression in practice; leading to several sole-authored textbooks and numerous articles and chapters. More recently, however, she has become interested in generational changes in the student cohort, including self-censorship and the embrace of critical social justice activism. Jane’s scholarship and publications are now concerned with the grip critical social justice theory has on academia. She advocates for the reclamation of traditional liberal values to ensure social work education and higher education more broadly can fulfil its telos of knowledge production and the search for truth.
Recent publications include:
Sticks and stones: the idea that words cause harm and the implications of this for higher education
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