Educating for social work : arguments for optimism
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Educating for social work : arguments for optimism
(CEDR series, 8)
Avebury, c1996
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work describes social work education in Britain. It covers: the current situation, competences, professional training, and whether it should be reactive or proactive, the function of communication in social work, developing an anti-racist curriculum, the issue of partnership, and more.
Table of Contents
- Part one The present situation: dangerous times for British social work education, Chris Jones
- competences - their use and misuse, Peter Ford
- professional training in higher education - the case of social work, Karen Lyons
- social work education - reactive or proactive?, Joan Orme
- writing postmodern social work, Graham Tuson
- reason and commitment - is communication possible in contested areas of social work theory and practice?, Jackie Powell and Robin Lovelock. Part two Strengths and resources: from rhetoric to reality - historical, theoretical and practical complexities in educating for anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive social work, Elizabeth Harlow and Jeff Hearn
- developing an anti-racist social work curriculum, Kish Bhatti-Sinclair
- the implications of partnership for social work education, Sylvia Sleeman
- the European agenda - social work and social work education, Patrick Haynes et al
- the experiences of social work students in foreign placements, John Horncastle
- the social work practitioner as researcher - learning about research, Jackie Powell
- in concluding, Peter Ford and Patrick Haynes.
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