Dream Deferred - How Social Work Education Lost Its Way and What Can Be Done

List of contents

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

About the author

Howard Karger

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Terry Carrilio, Howard Karger, Howard Jacob Karger, Karger Howard, Shils, Edward Shils, Edward Karger Shils, Shils Edward, David Stoesz
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.09.2017
• EAN: 9781138507166
• ISBN: 978-1-138-50716-6
• No. of pages: 239
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General