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Revolution By Evolution: The Needed Graduate Response To Undergraduate Social Work Education, Roger A. Lohmann
Revolution By Evolution: The Needed Graduate Response To Undergraduate Social Work Education, Roger A. Lohmann
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
This paper is an assessment of the state of the art of graduate social work curricula with particular reference to the lag of such curriculum in responding to the maturation of undergraduate social work education. Advanced standing programs, it is suggested, offer a purely administrative solution to the curriculum question posed by the new continuum of social work education. An ad hoc trial and error problem-solving strategy is called for, on the basis of four assumptions: the primary of the BSW curriculum; and the advanced, specialized and applied science character of graduate social work.
The Political Economy Of Admissions, Roger A. Lohmann
The Political Economy Of Admissions, Roger A. Lohmann
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
A conceptual model of graduate social work admissions highlighting the societal implications of admission decisions is set out in this paper. Admissions, it is argued, can be viewed as a resource allocation process in which the distribution of various resources – goods and services, status, authority and professional autonomy – is altered. The authoritative allocation of status within the status economy of the profession is set forth and defended as the key allocation dimension of admissions processes.