1st Edition
A Dream Deferred How Social Work Education Lost Its Way and What Can be Done
239 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
239 Pages
by
Routledge
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From its inception in the late nineteenth century, social work has struggled to carry out the complex, sometimes contradictory, functions associated with reducing suffering, enhancing social order, and social reform. Since then, social programs like the implementation of welfare and the expansion of the service economy-which should have augured well for American social work-instead led to a... Read more
PrefaceChapter 1: Slouching into the Twenty-First CenturyChapter 2: A Promise DeferredChapter 3: The Good News GospelChapter 4: Spinning out of Control: The Runaway Growth of Social Work ProgramsChapter 5: EdusclerosisChapter 6: The Doctoral Education BluesChapter 7: The Pink Collar GhettoChapter 8: Empirical AmnesiaChapter 9: The Council on Social Work Education and the National Association of Social Workers: A Concerned Critique by Bruce ThyerChapter 10: Reinventing Social Work Education: A Call to ActionIndex
Biography
Howard Karger
