Gatekeeping in BSW Programs
. Ed(S): Gibbs, Patty; Blakely, Eleanor H.
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Hardback. Leaders in their specific fields consider the administrative, ethical, and legal aspects of gatekeeping as well as its history and its major issues, legal matters, strategies and processes. Editor(s): Gibbs, Patty; Blakely, Eleanor H. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: JKSN; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 35. Weight in Grams: 953.
Social work educators and degree program administrators face difficult issues concerning law, student rights, and social justice in their role as gatekeepers of the social work profession. How, and why, should baccalaureate social work programs afford or restrict access to the profession? When do gatekeeping strategies mask educators' reluctance to tackle some of the more thorny issues that have plagued higher education in general, for example, academe's often limited success in addressing a variety of student special needs? Balancing the interests of a diverse student population, a baccalaureate program, and the profession--to say nothing of the clients--challenges gatekeepers' creativity to ... Read more
Social work educators and degree program administrators face difficult issues concerning law, student rights, and social justice in their role as gatekeepers of the social work profession. How, and why, should baccalaureate social work programs afford or restrict access to the profession? When do gatekeeping strategies mask educators' reluctance to tackle some of the more thorny issues that have plagued higher education in general, for example, academe's often limited success in addressing a variety of student special needs? Balancing the interests of a diverse student population, a baccalaureate program, and the profession--to say nothing of the clients--challenges gatekeepers' creativity to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231110501
SKU
V9780231110501
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About . Ed(S): Gibbs, Patty; Blakely, Eleanor H.
Patty Gibbs is a professor in the department of social work and the director of of the BSW Program at East Tennessee State University. She is a past chair of the National Task Group on BSW Gatekeeping Standards. Eleanor H. Blakely was an associate professor and director of the MSW Program in the Division of Social Work at West ... Read more
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