Journal of Social Work Education articles from January 2003

Journal of Social Work Education archives from January 2003

From the editor: evidence-based practice: sea change or the emperor's new clothes?
January 1, 2003... There are many lenses through which to explore the history of a profession. * One is in relation to reactions to new developments originating either outside or within the profession. What will be the reactions of the social work community to...

Ethics, science, and the helping professions: a conversation with Robyn Dawes.
January 1, 2003... Editor's Note. The integration of practice and research is an ongoing issue in the helping professions. This interview with Robyn Dawes reflects some of the related issues in this quest. Robyn Dawes is well known for his contributions to the...

The values of the research university should be maximized to strengthen social work education.
January 1, 2003... THE HIGHER EDUCATION SETTING for professional social work education has changed tremendously since its establishment in American universities in the early 20th century. Until relatively recently, social work education was almost exclusively...

Just practice: steps toward a new social work paradigm.
January 1, 2003... SOCIAL WORK is at a critical juncture. Scholars, practitioners, and policy makers are engaged in debates over the epistemology, theory base, priorities, and general relevance of the profession. These debates are fueled by external forces such...

Assessing publication for tenure.
January 1, 2003... ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT administrative duties performed by a school of social work is the hiring and retaining of quality educators. Once these instructors are employed, their suitability for tenure and promotion is considered by evaluating...

Comparisons between Caucasian students, students of color, and American Indian students on their views on social work's traditional mission, career motivations, and practice preferences.
January 1, 2003... Social Work's Traditional Mission WHATEVER THE SOCIAL or political climate, the profession of social work has historically accepted responsibility for attempting to improve the plight of the poor (Baggett, 1994; Specht & Courtney, 1994;...

Re-evaluating student evaluation of teaching: the teaching evaluation form.
January 1, 2003... CONTROVERSY CONTINUES regarding the validity of student evaluations of teaching, with evidence for and against their use as measures of instructor teaching performance (Abrami, d'Apollonia, & Cohen, 1990; Cashin & Downey, 1992; Dwinell &...

An empirical evaluation of the editorial practices of social work journals.
January 1, 2003... ACCORDING TO DESCRIPTIONS provided by the National Association of Social Workers (1995) and the American Psychological Association (1994), the ideal journal review process is conducted as follows: The author submits the manuscript and is sent...

What's Love Got to Do With It?(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... by David Wagner The New Press, New York, 2000 Philanthropy, it may seem, has joined apple pie, motherhood, and the flag as unassailable icons of the American Way. Enormously acclaimed, few institutions in American society are so clearly and...

Books received.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2003... Children & Families Dror, Y. (2001). Innovative Approaches in Working With Children and Youth: New Lessons From the Kibbutz. Binghamton, NY: Haworth. $29.95 (soft). This book examines state-of-the-art innovations in services for...

The critical approach to social work. (Letters To The Editor).
January 1, 2003... To the Editor: The invited essay "The Critical Approach to Social Work" (JSWE, Fall 2002) aptly described the social work education from an evolutionary epistemology. In his analysis of social work education, Perkinson relies on a...