Journal of Social Work Education articles from January 2000

Journal of Social Work Education archives from January 2000

POINT/COUNTERPOINT.
January 1, 2000... IS FOUNDATION CONTENT AN ARCHAIC EDUCATIONAL CONSTRUCT? YES! Professions are characterized by the ability to maintain a high degree of service orientation and a code of conduct; provide training and collegial discipline; self-regulate; and...

CHILD WELFARE WORKERS: AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH FOR INTERACTING WITH SECONDARY TRAUMA.
January 1, 2000... SOCIAL WORKERS are all familiar with the problems of child abuse and neglect, which span back in time for hundreds of years. The first documented case of child abuse intervention was in 1875 in New York City (Costin, Karger & Stacy, 1996)....

THE MANAGEMENT AUDIT AS A TEACHING TOOL IN SOCIAL WORK ADMINISTRATION.
January 1, 2000... SINCE AT LEAST THE ADVENT of the accountability movement in social work in the 1970s (Martin & Kettner, 1997) and the popularizing of excellence by Peters and Waterman (1982), social work administrators have increasingly focused on defining and...

EVALUATING EXPERIENTIAL TEACHING METHODS IN A POLICY PRACTICE COURSE: THE CASE FOR SERVICE LEARNING TO INCREASE POLITICAL PARTICIPATION.
January 1, 2000... COMMUNICATING THE GOAL of social justice as part of both the social work code of ethics and the profession's person-in-environment perspective has been a challenge for social work educators in the classroom. As Gordon (1994) points out, by not...

CHANGE STRATEGIES FOR INTEGRATING WOMEN'S KNOWLEDGE INTO SOCIAL WORK CURRICULA.
January 1, 2000... There is little argument that social work curricula should reflect the range of conceptual viewpoints and theoretical perspectives that are germane to the profession. Social workers' effectiveness depends on the growth of knowledge within the...

CHURCH BURNING: USING A CONTEMPORARY ISSUE TO TEACH COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION.
January 1, 2000... THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE REPORTED 28 incidents of church burning in African-American communities in the 17 months prior to May 1996 (Fletcher, 1996a). Most of the churches were located in isolated rural areas of the South and Southwest and two...

CHERCHEZ L'ARGENT: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEBATE ABOUT CLASS SIZE, STUDENT-FACULTY RATIOS, AND USE OF ADJUNCT FACULTY.
January 1, 2000... THERE IS GROWING CONCERN about the declining use of full-time tenure-track faculty in social work education programs in the face of a large increase in student enrollment. McMurtry and McClelland (1997) use Council on Social Work Education...

HOW HYPERMODERN TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION BITES BACK.
January 1, 2000... IN RECENT YEARS, social work education has been inundated by sophisticated and often costly technology (Conklin & Osterndorf, 1995; Iacono & Kling, 1996). According to Wise (1997), hypermodern technology (or hypertechnology) refers not to...

ASSESSING THE COMPARABILITY OF CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENTS IN GRADUATE SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION DELIVERED VIA INTERACTIVE INSTRUCTIONAL TELEVISION.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... THE ROLE OF THE UNIVERSITY in a rapidly changing society is becoming redefined. The Information Age has put a premium on access to the types of resources the university has traditionally supplied: education, research, and continuing...

GOING THE DISTANCE: USING SYSTEMS THEORY TO DESIGN, IMPLEMENT, AND EVALUATE A DISTANCE EDUCATION PROGRAM.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WORK at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) completed the first cycle of a three-year distance education (DE) program in May 1998. This part-time MSW program was based on an urban campus in southern...

A MODEL FOR DEVELOPING AND MANAGING DISTANCE EDUCATION PROGRAMS USING INTERACTIVE VIDEO TECHNOLOGY.
January 1, 2000... AS OF 1996, AT LEAST 40 accredited social work programs were offering graduate or undergraduate courses through some form of distance education (Siegel, Conklin, Jennings, & Napoletano Flynn, 1998). Three years later that number is certainly...

BOOKS RECEIVED.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Children and Families Besharov, D. J. (Ed.). (1999). America's Disconnected Youth: Toward a Preventive Strategy. Washington, DC: CWLA Press. $28.95 (paper). Adolescence is a time when many young people have difficulty transitioning to...