Rethinking Social Work's Role in Public Assistance

This paper examines the attitudes toward poverty and welfare reform of a sample of social workers and inner‐city school teachers. More specifically, it focuses on the impact of poverty attributions on attitudes toward welfare reform among members of this sample. There is a mystery about attitudes toward welfare reform that the paper attempts to explain. These social workers and teachers rejected most of the 1996 changes to welfare, but they were surprisingly positive about the impact these reforms have on the families with whom they work. This contradictory set of beliefs is explained as a function of the family‐oriented view of poverty that is peculiar to this group.

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Uprooting Social Work Education

Clarke

Aiello

Chau

et al. 2012

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In this article, the authors attempt to deconstruct social work education using a metaphor of a "social work tree." Through reflective dialogue and an arts-based approach, we critically examined the past, present, and future of social work education. This collaborative art project allows us to visually express the colonial roots of social work education and the transformation that is possible when its Eurocentric stronghold is uprooted. We discuss the implications for social work education and suggest ways of moving forward with an allied approach that bridges the gap between mainstream and Indigenous social work education.

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Rethinking Social Work's Role in Public Assistance

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Promoting Food Justice and the Right to Adequate Food in Social Work Education

Promoting Food Justice and the Right to Adequate Food in Social Work Education

The Contradictions of Caring: Social Workers, Teachers, and Attributions for Poverty and Welfare Reform

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