Martínez Herrero, María InésCharnley, Helen2025-08-192025-08-192020-04-03Martínez Herrero, M. I., & Charnley, H. (2020). Resisting neoliberalism in social work education: learning, teaching, and performing human rights and social justice in England and Spain. Social Work Education, 40(1), 44–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2020.17474211470-1227, 0261-5479https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2020.1747421https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/29911The registered version of this article, first published in “Social Work Education, 40, 2021", is available online at the publisher's website: Taylor & Francis, https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2020.1747421 La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en “Social Work Education, 40, 2021", está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Taylor & Francis, https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2020.1747421In an increasingly complex, globalized world, many of the problems confronting social workers are rooted in structural inequalities created or deepened by uncontrolled neoliberal market mechanisms. Yet neoliberal political agendas dominating the global order encourage individualistic models of social work intervention, characterized by managerialism and deprofessionalization. Critiquing the impact of neoliberalism, those aligned with critical and radical social work traditions have highlighted the use of narrow technicist interventions to disguise the root social causes of people´s suffering and contradicting values of human rights (HR) and social justice (SJ) that lie at the heart of social work as a profession. For social work students to locate themselves confidently within HR and SJ frameworks, they must experience HR and SJ as central to their education. This article draws on doctoral research exploring how HR and SJ are operationalized in social work education in England and Spain. A web survey of social work educators and students was complemented by interviews with educators in both countries. Findings revealed key opportunities for learning, teaching and performing HR and SJ in social work education. We discuss each in turn, reflecting briefly on the implications for enhancing the profile of HR and SJ in social work educationeninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess56 Ciencias Jurídicas y Derechojournal articlesocial work educationhuman rightssocial justiceneoliberalismEnglandSpain