Scaling up Social: Strategies for Solving Social Work's Grand Challenges

Autor/inn/en	Rodriguez, Maria Y.; Ostrow, Laysha; Kemp, Susan P.
Titel	Scaling up Social: Strategies for Solving Social Work's Grand Challenges
Quelle	In: Research on Social Work Practice, 27 (2017) 2, S.139-149 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1049-7315
DOI	10.1177/1049731516658352
Schlagwörter	Social Work; Change Strategies; Social Problems; Educational Practices; Educational Research; Theory Practice Relationship; Educational Innovation; Barriers; Educational History; Public Opinion; Infant Mortality; Advocacy; Caseworker Approach + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Arbeit; Lösungsstrategie; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Bildungspraxis; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Öffentliche Meinung; Kindersterblichkeit; Sozialanwaltschaft
Abstract	The Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative aims to focus the profession's attention on how social work can play a larger role in mitigating contemporary social problems. Yet a central issue facing contemporary social work is its seeming reticence to engage with social problems, and their solutions, beyond individual-level interventions. Social work research, we contend, must more consistently link case and cause, iteratively developing processes for bringing micro-, mezzo-, and macrostreams of information together. We further argue that meaningful engagement with the initiative requires social work scholars and practitioners to actively scale up practice and research inquiry. We detail two key strategies for employing a scaled-up social work practice and research ethos: (a) employing a critical economic lens and (b) engaging with diverse publics. As proof of concept for these arguments, we offer an early example of progressive era social workers scaling up responses to a pressing social issue: infant mortality. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01