Abstract
This chapter describes how service user involvement in social work education and research is related to social innovation. The involvement of service users can in itself be seen as social innovation, but also facilitates learning and research processes that increase the knowledge and competences of future social workers to work in socially innovative ways. We discuss the content, process and empowerment dimensions of social innovation in cooperative methods with service users in social work education and research. By presenting selected examples from education and research, we discuss their potential in the production of new or newly combined knowledge; the goal of addressing social problems that respond to normative needs; the added value for social work education, social work research, the profession and service users; the transformation in social relations or social structures along the lines of the fight against injustice, inequality and inaccessibility.
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