A Dream Deferred: How Social Work Education Lost Its Way and What Can Be Done
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. Since then, social programs like the implementation of welfare and the expansion of the service economy which should have augured well for American social work instead led to a continued loss of credibility with the public and within the academy. A Dream Deferred chronicles this d
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This book is a must read for anyone involved in social work education and research. The authors turn a critical eye toward the role of the CSWE and the NASW, professional associations which are designed to provide support and oversight to the social work profession. The failure of these bodies to properly guide the profession is cited as one of the forces contributing to the mediocrity of social work students and the resultant lack of proficient social work research. Further, the explosion of social work programs at universities across the country has created a glut of empty seats in social work programs prompting colleges to scramble to fill them with less qualified candidates. This book really makes one question the role we all play in the machine that is dumbing down our profession. I have recommended it to all my colleagues.