An enormous gap exists between the number of professionally educated social workers that are needed and the number available; and further research is necessary to find the knowledge and skills needed for varying levels of social work. Professional education should be more intellectual and theoretical. By organizing it around the disciplines basic to its own systematic body of knowledge, it has a broad foundation and provides bridges to other fields. Study in the disciplines cognate to social work seems to be especially important in doctoral programs. Interprofessional collaboration is desirable and various structural devices have been employed to facilitate interdisciplinary and interprofessional teaching and research in some institutions. Social work education has been handicapped by 2 dominant characteristics a constraining allegiance to Freudian theory and a paucity of research on social welfare problems and education. If schools of social work wish to enjoy full university membership, they will have to increase research productivity and threrfore recruit a different kind of faculty. Research findings (summarized here) have contributed to our knowledge about the psychological attributes of people with strong intellectual interests and about differential recruitment to colleges and fields of study. In professional education, strong theoretical orientation should be balanced with applied research and training. Universities are already heavily involved in meeting social needs and, with the demands for more outside involvement, they must remember that their primary function is intellectual. (JS)
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- California Univ., Berkeley. Center for Research and Development in Higher Education.
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- United States of America
Table of Contents
- Whether in social 6
- In proposing an expansion of underraduate programs I am well aware that 6
- The term 10
- The actual 13
- Perhaps a new 14
- Several years ago 14
- A second reason 14
- We have also learned 15
- A student is on 16
- He demands of 16
- A Modern 16
- Aesthetic scores wer9 now well 17
- Staff 18
- The relatively 20
- When one looks at the original 20
- The School of 24
- Planning 24
- Angeles and in the heart of 25
- And he added 26
- As the late Chancellor 26
- 2 Heyns R. W. University 26
- Many14re debating 28
- Facult7 29