Handbook of Applied Teaching and Learning in Social Work Management Education: Theories, Methods, and Practices in Higher Education (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031180378)

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 PhD in Social Sciences at the Ruhr-Universit舩 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 (SoTL). 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 (F?rung 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.