Social work dialogues
Subtitle: transforming the canon in inquiry, practice, and education
By: [edited by] Stanley L. Witkin and Dennis Saleebey.
Contributors: Witkin, Stanley L, 1947-; Saleebey, Dennis.
Publisher: Council on Social Work Education
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Alexandria, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
Subjects: Social service.; Social service -- Philosophy.; Social work education.; Postmodernism.
Notes: Based on discussions at the Transforming Social Work (TSW) gatherings held annually in Vermont since 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: 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; 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; Envoicing the world : social constructionism and essentialism in natural discourse - how social work fits in / Fred H. Besthorn; Art works : between social critique and active re-enchantment / Adrienne Chambon; Inhabiting the off-frame : social workers as connoisseurs of ambiguity / Allan Irving; Make-overs for "bewhiskered" research : diverse heuristics for understanding causality in social and behavioral research / Katherine Tyson; 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.