'You can't trust your own instincts anymore' : a study of the contested grounds of social work knowledge
As a social worker I had been upset that literature about social work denied or distorted the realities of doing social work. As a practitioner researcher I asked social workers to talk to me m interviews and audio diaries, about their work. Their accounts display their knowledge in practice as an e...
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Manchester Metropolitan University
2008
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496174 |
| Summary: | As a social worker I had been upset that literature about social work denied or distorted the realities of doing social work. As a practitioner researcher I asked social workers to talk to me m interviews and audio diaries, about their work. Their accounts display their knowledge in practice as an embodied, rational and social achievement that explodes technical categories of mind/body, rational/irrational, objective/subjective. |
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