Continuing Education as an Effective Linkage Between Schools of Social Work And the Practice Community
Abstract Establishing viable linkages between social work education and practice has been a constant concern of educators and practitioners. Traditional linkages such as agency field placements and agency-based research have not materially strengthened relationships. Continuing education can be an effective linkage between schools and practitioners, providing two conditions are met. First, continuing education programs must be centrally administered as part of the mainstream of the school's curriculum. Second, both practitioners and administrators must be engaged actively in curriculum planning, implementation, and evaluation. The Extramural MSW Program and the Child Welfare Training Project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, are used as illustrations.
An Agency's View toward Education for Practice
There is no doubt that the school-agency relationship with respect to education for practice continues to be a most complicated, controversial, and troublesome area of mu tual concern. Over the years the litera ture, with its repeated references to prob lems and gaps in communication, makes this clear. There are many exhortations and pleas for better communication with the understandable implication that opportuni ties for more discussion would somehow im
Values in Social Work Education: A Study
SOCIAL workers have long considered their profession to be one well infused with values which guide the selection of students for training and determine the broad outlines of the training they will receive. In recent years Pumphrey has contributed to an identification of the characteristics of social work values and the ways in which they develop during the learning process. In doing so, she has defined values as follows: