Description: 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
Brief description:
Howard Jacob Karger is head of the School of Social Work & Human Services at the University of Queensland. He is the author of numerous books, including Shortchanged: Life and Debt in the Fringe Economy and American Social Welfare Policy (Sixth Edition).
Review Quotes:
"A critical treatise on the current state of social work education. (the authors)They suggest that it has been rendered deficient in a number of crucial areas by a combination of factors, including poorly considered accreditation governance that has led to a discordant proliferation of BSW/MSW programs while doctoral programs have gone unregulated, poor editorial review and publication practices, and substandard governance and editorial practices of both the Council on Social Work Education and the National Association of Social Workers, that have undermined the quality and potential of both social work students and scholars.... The authors assert social work education must reform itself by reconceptualizing the accreditation model, reevaluating the pedagogical agenda, and mandating intellectual rigor.Recommended."
-J. C. Reed, Choice