Title
Empowering Social Work Faculty: Alternative Paradigms for Teaching and Learning
Department/School
Social Work
Date of this version
1997
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1300/J067v15n01_04
Abstract
Based upon the emergence of alternative paradigms both inside and outside of social work education, four paradigms representing the most traditional to the most radical are presented. Each paradigm is discussed in terms of its ontological and epistemological assumptions as well as other pedagogical issues including role of the teacher, methods of evaluation and course structure. Educators are urged to use these paradigms to better understand legitimate differences between faculty, to become more conscious and deliberate in their choice of methods, to identify areas of incongruence, and to push themselves and the profession towards philosophies and methods most congruent with social work values an ethics.
Volume
15
Issue
1-2
Published in
Journal of Teaching in Social Work, Vol 15 (1/2) 1997
Citation/Other Information
Graham, M. A. (1997). Empowering social work faculty: Alternative paradigms for teaching and learning. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 15(1-2), 33-49. https://doi.org/10.1300/J067v15n01_04