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Explanation and Education in Social Work
Peter Leonard is Professor of Applied Social Studies in the University of Warwick. After ten years of social work practice he became a social work teacher at Liverpool University. From 1965 to 1973 he was at the National Institute for Social Work, for most of that time as Director of Social Work Education
Summary
Social work education has to confront the problem of working with students in developing an understanding of the range of explanations that exist in the social sciences and the different bases of these explanations. One pedagogic approach is to explore a map of categories of explanation based upon different conceptions of the nature of social science knowledge itself. Such a map, outlined in the paper, would distinguish between physical science paradigms and human science paradigms and identify the different implications for social work of the various viewpoints. The teacher cannot remain neutral with regard to explanation in the social sciences; the author therefore indicates that his own account is based on a marxist perspective
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