Journal of Social Work Education articles from September 1999

Journal of Social Work Education archives from September 1999

LETTER TO THE EDITOR.
September 22, 1999... To the Editor: Dean Feldman raises some critical issues in the editorial "The Human Resource Crisis in Social Work Education" (JSWE, Spring/Summer 1999). The need for more doctoral-level social workers to go into social work education is a...

RESEARCH SELF-EFFICACY: A NEW POSSIBILITY FOR EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT.
September 22, 1999... Does social work research education work? To answer this question, instructors employ an array of traditional measures, each with its own limitations and compromises. The validity and utility of student evaluations, for instance, continue to be...

BOOKS RECEIVED.(Bibliography)
September 22, 1999... AIDS/HIV Cohen, C. J. (1999). The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. $18 (paper). The African-American community in the United States has become fractured, rather...

INTERGROUP DIALOGUES: AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO TEACHING ABOUT DIVERSITY AND JUSTICE IN SOCIAL WORK PROGRAMS.
September 22, 1999... This article reports on intergroup dialogues, an innovative pedagogical method to address cultural diversity and social justice issues in social work curricula. Intergroup dialogues--facilitated face-to-face meetings of students from different...

USING SINGLE SYSTEM DESIGN FOR STUDENT SELF-ASSESSMENT: A METHOD FOR ENHANCING PRACTICE AND INTEGRATING CURRICULUM.
September 22, 1999... This article offers a strategy for students to more rigorously assess their professional growth related to assessment and planning skills, and provides an example of how a program with limited resources designed a strategy to foster curriculum...

POINT/COUNTERPOINT.
September 22, 1999... SHOULD MSW CURRICULA BE EXTENDED TO THREE YEARS? YES! Point/Counterpoint is a regular feature of the Journal of Social Work Education. Its purpose is to provide a vehicle for the expression of contrasting views on controversial topics in...

PERSPECTIVES OF SOCIAL WORK FACULTY ON DIVERSITY AND SOCIETAL OPPRESSION CONTENT: RESULTS FROM A NATIONAL SURVEY.
September 22, 1999... This article presents data from a secondary analysis of a 1992 survey of graduate social work faculty to identify their views of the importance of content on diverse populations and types of oppression. The large majority of respondents rated...

HOW MSW GRADUATES APPLY WHAT THEY LEARNED ABOUT DIVERSITY TO THEIR WORK WITH SMALL GROUPS.
September 22, 1999... Reported are the findings of a nationwide survey of agency-based social workers with MSW degrees. Subjects were asked questions about their sociocultural identities, exposure to diversity content in their programs of study, the most and least...

GLOBALIZATION FROM BELOW: USING THE INTERNET TO INTERNATIONALIZE SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION.
September 22, 1999... This article discusses distance learning techniques used to operationalize the concept of "globalization from below" in a social work methods course. In the E-Mail Partnership Project, one of the major course assignments, students communicate...

TEACHING STATISTICS: A COMPARISON OF TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM AND PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION/DISTANCE LEARNING APPROACHES.
September 22, 1999... This article compares grades earned by incoming MSW students in traditional classroom-based statistics courses and those taught using software-based content and no regular classes. Traditional-learning students earned high grades overall,...

AN EVALUATION OF TEACHING DIRECT PRACTICE COURSES IN A DISTANCE EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR RURAL SETTINGS.
September 22, 1999... This study presents the results of an evaluation of a graduate-level direct practice course taught through a distance education program that utilized face-to-face satellite television instruction. The study also compared the learning process...

THE DOWNSIDE OF CYBERSPACE: CHEATING MADE EASY.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1999... This article explores the actual and potential misuses of the World Wide Web in regard to access to "paper mills" and other information sources that make plagiarism relatively easy. The authors describe their experience accessing such paper...

ELECTRONIC ADVOCACY IN POLICY PRACTICE: A FRAMEWORK FOR TEACHING TECHNOLOGICALLY BASED PRACTICE.
September 22, 1999... The 1990s have not been easy times for social welfare advocates and their clients. Not only must advocacy efforts contend with repressive new legislation, but the creation of a new, diffuse policy environment makes many traditional advocacy...

Technology and Teaching: Searching for the Middle Ground.
September 22, 1999... Over 25 years ago, I graduated from a state university with a bachelor's degree in social work. As a young, single female with no responsibilities at the time, I ended up leaving the area where I grew up to earn a master's degree in social work...

Distance Education and Accreditation.
September 22, 1999... Higher education in the United States developed from a "sage on the stage" teaching model, with instructors and students together in the same classroom at the same time. This baseline model has been challenged in the past two decades by new...

GUEST EDITORIAL.(Editorial)(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1999... JSWE is proud to introduce a special section of articles on distance education and technology in social work education. As we approach the new millennium, intellectual discussion about information technology and its potential applications in...