Contextualizing disciplinary histories through the personal stories of forerunners creates
compelling narratives of the craft of evolving professions. By looking to our intellectual and …

Social work has enhanced its profile in the United States by adopting a particular dialect of
scientific inquiry wherein positivism and evidence-based practice are considered gold …

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Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice Vol. 7, No. 1 EDITORIAL: RECKONING AND …

The purpose of this research is to highlight competing and contrasting definitions of social
work that have been the subject of continuous ideological debate. These opposing …

Grounded in an indigenous holistic worldview and borrowing from the four Rs (values of
relationships, responsibility, reciprocity, and redistribution), this article supports the inclusion …

In this article, I tell the autoethnographic stories of epistemological tensions emerging from
my entanglement with Indigenous and Western ways of knowing in my journey towards my …

Western research and education draw heavily on evidence-based approaches underpinned
by positivism. Reliance on this scientific approach informs what is to be counted, measured …

In this column, the author presents a brief reflection of the challenges that are associated
with teaching social work from a critical, antiracist, postcolonial, feminist …

Three themes are central to preparing doctoral students for the professoriate: identity
formation, scientific integration, and intellectual communities. In this article, we argue that …

Shaping a Science of Social Work provides a basic framework for a social work science
within the context of academic disciplinarity and professional identity. Drawn from …