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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"History of social work"”.
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From farm training to therapy : a case study in the history of social work from a macro-micro social policy perspective
This thesis analyses the development of social work during the twentieth century by examining the life history of one residential establishment, Turners Court, founded in 1911. The objective is to explain how ideals and policies are translated into action, by conducting an historical analysis of an …
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Unsettling graduate social work education at DePaul university
<p>Social work education and practice have been historically complacent in settler colonialism and, many times, perpetrated acts of settler violence against Native peoples. Thus, it is incumbent on graduate social work education to include curricula related to this topic. This is a master's thesis …
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From Social Welfare to Social Work, the Broad View versus the Narrow View
This dissertation looks back through the lens of a conflict that emerged during the development of social work education in Alberta, and captured by a dispute about the name of the school. The difference of a single word – welfare versus work – led through selected events in the history of social …
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Rethinking the clinical vs. social reform debate: a dialectical approach to defining social work in the 21st century
There is a historical tension in social work between the clinical and social reform perspectives. The original goal for this dissertation was to offer pragmatism as a philosophical orientation that would make sense of these two seemingly disparate perspectives by explaining how they may coexist. A …