A Short History of the BPD/BPD-L Email List: November 1994–November 2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-196
Author(s):  
Marshall L. Smith ◽  
Stephen M. Marson ◽  
Bob Vernon ◽  
Dennis Cogswell ◽  
Ogden Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
Short History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Work Education

The BPD listserv is 25 years old. Starting with just a handful of subscribers, the listserv currently has about 1,760 members. Most are actively engaged educators along with publishers, doctoral students, and others interested in baccalaureate social work education. The listserv has become a mainstay for providing a forum for sharing, research, and many other issues relevant to social work education and practice. This article provides the contexts, history, and stories that have transpired over the years and speculates about the listserv’s future.

scholarly journals Disruptions, distractions, and discoveries: Doctoral students’ reflections on a pandemic

2020 ◽  
pp. 147332502097334
Author(s):  
Chinyere Y Eigege ◽  
Priscilla P Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Research Agendas ◽  
Work Education ◽  
The Impact

This paper describes the reflections of two social work PhD students based on their personal and professional experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic. The students describe their positionality and use that to expound on the impact of the pandemic on their lives. They reflect on the disruptions to their social work education and research priorities including transitioning to online learning and modifications to research agendas. They then discuss ongoing distractions such as worries about getting sick, mental health concerns, and financial constraints. They share their discoveries about glaring disparities in coronavirus infection and death rates, the need to adjust research agendas in response to current events, and the urgency for qualitative research strategies to add meaning to the numbers being reported. In addition, the authors describe shared experiences and intersections they discovered while writing this essay. Finally, recommendations for practice include recommitting to social work values to help surmount the ongoing waves of this pandemic; reimagining social work education so that disparities and injustice intersect with every subject taught and graduates become experts at leading social change; and harnessing the untapped potential of qualitative research to drive real, systemic change.

The Feminist Perspective and Social Work Education

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Isabel Rose ◽  
Daria Hanssen
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Social Work Educators ◽  
History Of ◽  
Work Education ◽  
History Of Social Work

Although the feminist perspective has been significant throughout the history of social work, its presence in the contemporary profession seems less prominent. This qualitative pilot study explores the views of social work educators (N=56) on the role of the feminist perspective in social work education and their experience with student responses regarding the tenets of feminism as applied to social work education and practice. Although a majority of respondents expressed support for integrating feminism into the curriculum, some sought guidance on the presentation of the feminist perspective in social work education and practice. In addition, an analysis of social work scholarly periodicals for feminist topics and perspectives revealed an apparent fading of feminism in the literature.

scholarly journals Integrating learning community principles and strategies for enhancing academic and social agency partnerships in social work education

10.18060/185 ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Johansen ◽  
Philip M. Ouellette
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
Field Instructors ◽  
Training Systems ◽  
History Of ◽  
Internship Programs ◽  
Work Education ◽  
Considerable Concern

Social work education has a long history of placing emphasis on experiential learning through required field experiences. There is, however, considerable concern regarding the fragmentation in social- work education programs between what is taught in the classroom versus what is taught in internship programs by field instructors. New ways to conceptualize and enhance the coordination gap between academia and field agencies are needed. This article provides an overviw of the concept of a learning community, its relevancy to social work education, and provides examples of learning community strategies that have the potential of enhancing better linkages between faculty and field instructors. Specific suggestions for the development of learning communities are included. Learning community principles and its accompanying strategies may be one way to better conceptualize and bridge the coordination gap that is frequently confronted by the conflicting realities of dual training systems in social work education.

Professionalization of social work in colonial India: Glancing at the history of social work in India before 1936

2021 ◽  
pp. 002087282110489
Author(s):  
Abhijeet Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
Education In India ◽  
History Of ◽  
Work Education ◽  
History Of Social Work ◽  
Work Knowledge

This article discusses a brief history of ‘modern’ social work in India before 1936. I present how abstract conceptions of scientifically informed and organized social work practice were brewing in colonial India, along with attempts to assemble or organize it. I use these accounts to further present certain nuances on the modalities of imported social work knowledge that dominated social work education in India after 1936.

scholarly journals An Introduction to Islandwood Papers on Social Work and the Arts

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 684-686
Author(s):  
Marilyn L. Flynn ◽  
Michal Sela-Amit
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Outcome Measurement ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Work Education

The social work profession has adopted science and empirical evidence as the means of validating discovery. As the commitment to science has intensified, interest in the use of arts in practice has grown as a counterpoise and an effort to justify other forms of knowledge and human experience. A roundtable was held in summer 2017 to examine whether the arts have a distinctive place in social work practice. It has been acknowledged that the arts have played a role in the history of the profession, however, remained neglected and marginalized in social work education. Roundtable participants argued that creativity, necessary disruption, and transformation have been lost to the field as a result. It is possible that social work education might be reimagined with new underpinnings of science, social innovation, and the arts. It should not be assumed that outcome measurement is not possible; however, measures would have to be rethought.

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