Thursday, October 15, 2009

Topic 2: Research scholarship

Quote: "Social work's...literature has little value to other disciplines using more rigorous methods...Social work's practitioners and academics are unable to analyze and speak authorotatively on issues of compelling public interest. Within higher education, social work frequently has little credibility, an academic island where ideology has trumped scholarship, detached from a vibrant, intellectual mainland."

Questions:
1. Is the profession's scholarly productivity comparatively low? If so, what can be done to strengthen it?
2. What might be done to strengthen social work scholarship here?
3. For promotion (and tenure) are the School's standards sufficient?

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