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.
Institutional Self-Evaluation Versus National Professional Accreditation or Back To The Normal School? 1
voluntary professional accreditation has been a feature of the university landscape for decades. Systematic and formal institutional self-evaluation is relatively new. Each of these forms of assessment was created for different purposes. Each serves a somewhat different audience. 'The purpose of this paper is to describe some of the procedures associated with institutional self-evaluation; to indicate that the two methods of assessment produce different results, at least at one university; and to advance the proposition that the two activities are likely to produce even more markedly conflicting evaluations in the future. The differences in outcome flow less from the particular procedures that are employed in accreditation and in institutional selfevaluation than from the fact that different people are asked to make judgments in each of these forms of assessment, and, increasingly, their differing perspectives reveal clearly opposing values. Finally, the conflict in values highlights some basic questions about the future of the education professions.
Marie Curie's doctoral thesis: Prelude to a Nobel Prize
This paper is a critical account for the most significant body of Marie Sklodowska Curie's scientific work, presented in the hopes that she be remembered for more of the "right" reasons. It also offers some new insights into her methods and results.