Maik Arnold 
Handbook of Applied Teaching and Learning in Social Work Management Education [PDF ebook] 
Theories, Methods, and Practices in Higher Education

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 of Interdisciplinarity 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.              

Maik Arnold,  Dipl.-Kfm., Dr. rer. soc., FRSA is professor for Social Work Management and vice-president for Research, Innovation, and Transfer at the Fachhochschule Dresden – University of Applied Science Dresden, Germany. From 2013 to 2017 he was managing director and research associate of the Centre for Research, Further Education, and Counselling at the University of Applied Sciences for Social Work in Dresden. He has conducted various projects in the fields of intercultural competence and cooperation, game-based learning, digital education, and organisation research; was research associate at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (UK); was visiting fellow at the Goethe Institute in Cracow (PL), the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities in Essen, and the Global Young Faculty in Essen (Stiftung Mercator). After his studies in Business Administration and Intercultural Communication at the Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany) and the Strathclyde University (Glasgow, UK), as well as Protestant Theology at the Evangelical Church of Central Germany, he received his Ph D in Social Sciences at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) in 2009. Since 2020, he holds the honorary position as a board member of the International Association of Social Work Management (INAS e.V.) and is speaker of the German Network of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (So TL). He is a certified systemic coach for change management and an intercultural trainer. He hosts the podcast Managing Around – A Podcast about Management, Culture, and Social Sciences which is part of the Talk About Organisations Podcast Network. As a published author of various books, textbooks, book chapters, journal articles, and presentations locally, nationally, and internationally, he specializes in social work management didactics and education, digital education management, management of social organisations, systemic coaching, intercultural communication and competence, cultural psychology, religious identity in intercultural contexts as well as methodology of qualitative empirical research. His last co-edited book Leadership and Organisation: New Developments in the Management of the Social and Health Economy (Führung und Organisation: Neue Entwicklungen im Management der Sozial- und Gesundheitswirtschaft) was published by Springer in 2019, and another edited book Handbook of Applied Teaching and Learning in Social Work Management Education: Theories, Methods, and Practices in Higher Education will be published by Springer Publishing Company in 2022.