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Social work: 'the appliance of social science’—a cautionary tale

Social work: 'the appliance of social science’—a cautionary tale
Social work: 'the appliance of social science’—a cautionary tale
With the expectation that research be relevant to users and that teaching ensures that graduateness involves teaching people to be fit for a purpose, social sciences in British universities are being encouraged to interact with employers, politicians and policy makers. This paper was presented at an ALSISS/ESRC1 conference on Interactive Social Sciences and argues that social work educators have a great deal to teach their colleague academics about interactivity, but that that very interactivity has led to their place in the academy being placed under threat
0261-5479
323-324
Orme, Joan
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Orme, Joan
95103e0d-01f3-4882-ae58-1309995c14bb

Orme, Joan (2000) Social work: 'the appliance of social science’—a cautionary tale. Social Work Education, 19 (4), 323-324. (doi:10.1080/02615470050078339).

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With the expectation that research be relevant to users and that teaching ensures that graduateness involves teaching people to be fit for a purpose, social sciences in British universities are being encouraged to interact with employers, politicians and policy makers. This paper was presented at an ALSISS/ESRC1 conference on Interactive Social Sciences and argues that social work educators have a great deal to teach their colleague academics about interactivity, but that that very interactivity has led to their place in the academy being placed under threat

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Published date: 2000

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Local EPrints ID: 33615
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/33615
ISSN: 0261-5479
PURE UUID: 518a930e-02cb-47c1-9e8e-21923940ec90

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Date deposited: 25 Jul 2006
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 07:45

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Author: Joan Orme

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