- Title
- Critical social work
- Creator
- Gray, Mel; Webb, Stephen A.
- Relation
- Social work theories and methods (2nd edition) p. 99-109
- Relation
- https://au.sagepub.com/en-gb/oce/social-work-theories-and-methods/book237316#contents
- Publisher
- Sage Publications
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- Does social work thinking have any influence on real-world events? This issue of 'real-world' influence is posed with particular acuity in social intervention-driven fields. Social work is just such a field and 'practice relevance' has become an oft-cited slogan among key stakeholders. While social work is an intervention-driven discipline, researching the relationship between social structure and individual agency requires a high degree of interdisciplinarity. This has undoubtedly been an obstacle in establishing the relevance of social work thinking about real-world events. Such interdisciplinarity is required as the question of practice relevance is situated at the confluence of a number of dimensions of thinking, the approaches of which are similar, but their preoccupations are diverse. These include direct concerns with the desirability and feasibility of practice-relevant research itself, a focus on the relationship between theory and practice and the role of researchers in policy formation processes, as well as higher order questions, such as the role of critical intellectuals in social work.
- Subject
- social work; social work education; social intervention
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1321618
- Identifier
- uon:24414
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781446208601
- Language
- eng
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