Naudotojo aptarimas:Jonasruskus
Pridėti temąJonas Ruškus - Professor in Social Work, Researcher in Disability and Other Social Groups At-Risk, Activist for Human Rights and Social Justice
Professor Jonas Ruškus is nationally and internationally recognized expert in area of disability. After his studies in special education for children having intellectual disability in Lithuania, Jonas Ruškus has a significant experience of voluntary work with people having intellectual and other disability in the international l’Arche community in France. The communitarian experience of the respectful relationship with the disabled determined his decision to devote his professional career to become an active agent for implementation of human rights and social justice. Currently Jonas Ruškus is working in the area of social work by teaching and research. His was a supervisor of the multiple national research projects in the field of social participation of people with disabilities and other social group at-risk (victims of human trafficking, juveniles, ex-prisoners etc), inclusive education, social policy, quality of social service, monitoring of national educational system with collaboration of Lithuanian Government (Ministry of Education, Ministry Social Security and Labor, Research Council of Lithuania) and Non-Governmental organizations (as Lithuanian welfare society for persons with mental disability HOPE).
Current position
[taisyti]Professor at the Department of Social Work (from 2007) and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences (from 2010) at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania.