Social work dialogues : transforming the canon in inquiry, practice, and education / [edited by] Stanley L. Witkin, Dennis Saleebey. - Alexandria, Va. : Council on Social Work Education, c2007. - xiv, 362 p. ; 23 cm.

Based on discussions at the Transforming Social Work (TSW) gatherings held annually in Vermont since 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Toward a transformative social work / Stanley L. Witkin -- The un-conference / Sally St. George and Dan Wulff -- "Good talk" : the art of transforming conversations / Ruth Dean -- Understanding theory, practicing social work / Richard Pozzuto -- Taking "guilty knowledge" seriously : theorizing, everyday inquiry, and action as "social caretaking" / Brenda Solomon -- A dialogue : can a conservative profession like social work have an emancipatory practice? / Mel Gray and Richard Pozzuto -- Constructive social work practice in an age of uncertainty / Nigel Parton -- En-voicing the world : social constructionism and essentialism in natural discourse - how social work fits in / Fred H. Besthorn -- Art works : between social critique and active reenchantment / Adrienne Chambon -- Inhabiting the off-frame : social workers as connoisseurs of ambiguity / Allan Irving -- Makeovers for "bewhiskered" research : diverse heuristics for understanding causality in social and behavioral sciences / Katherine Tyson McCrea -- Notes on teaching social work ethics / Margaret Rhodes -- Postmodern call and response : social work education in the modernist university / Susan E. Roche -- Epilogue / Dennis Saleebey.

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Social service.
Social service--Philosophy.
Social work education.
Postmodernism.

HV 40 / .S6613 2007