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A Dream Deferred - How Social Work Education Lost Its Way and What Can be Done (Paperback)
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A Dream Deferred - How Social Work Education Lost Its Way and What Can be Done (Paperback)
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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 continued loss of credibility with the public
and within the academy. A Dream Deferred chronicles this decline of
social work, attributing it to the poor quality of professional
education during the past half-century. The incongruity between
social work's promise and its performance warrants a critical
review of professional education. For the past half-century, the
fortunes of social work have been controlled by the Council of
Social Work Education, which oversees accreditation of the nation's
schools of social work. Stoesz, Karger, and Carrilio argue that the
lack of scholarship of the Board of Directors compromises this
accreditation policy. Similarly, the quality of professional
literature suffers from the weak scholarship of editors and
referees. The caliber of deans and directors of social work
educational programs is low and graduate students are ill-prepared
to commence studies in social work. Further complicating this
debate, the substitution of ideology for academic rigor makes
social work vulnerable to its critics. The authors state that,
since CSWE is unlikely to reform social work education, schools of
social work should be free to obtain accreditation independently,
and they propose criteria for independent accreditation. A Dream
Deferred builds on the past, presents a bracing critique of the
present, and proposes recommendations for a better future that
cannot be ignored or dismissed.
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