The Relevance of Social Work Education

Campus Report ^ | September 19, 2007 | Nirmala Punnusami

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The Relevance of Social Work Education

by: Nirmala Punnusami, September 19, 2007

It is the considered view of The National Association of Scholars that American schools of social work have lost their noble mission. They no longer adhere to the basic principles of intellectual inquiry. They no longer work on relevant issues of poverty, drug addiction, crime and developing informed opinions, but instead their education programs now run counter to the spirit and the principles of good educational practice.

They have compromised their education principles. They have subverted their social work education, and have now gone to an advanced stage of politicization and coerced intellectual conformity.

In order to explain all this, The National Association of Scholars has shown that social work educational programs have gone through some significant changes during the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations of the 1960’s and 1970’s, showing a detailed study of social work education programs, looking specifically at accreditation programs, their missions, and of course their content standards.

[GeronL]

commies

[stubernx98]

Social Workers are enablers. If they succeed, and get people off welfare etc., then their government jobs go away also. There is no incentive to succeed so .......

Now if the managers had a financial incentive to reduce poverty in their area of responsibility(profit motive) then you might see some success.

[penowa]

"They have subverted their social work education, and have now gone to an advanced stage of politicization and coerced intellectual conformity."

So where is the report on the schools of education, law, medicine, etc. Think the conclusion about them would be any different?