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    Putting the economic back into the social (work curriculum)

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    Authors
    Barns, Angela
    Preston, Alison
    Date
    2003
    Type
    Working Paper
    
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    Barns, Angela and Preston, Alison (2003) Putting the economic back into the social (work curriculum), Women' s Economic Policy Analysis Unit (WEPAU) Working Paper: no. 29, Curtin University of Technology, Curtin Business School.
    Faculty
    Division of Humanities
    Curtin Business School
    Department of Social Work and Social Policy
    Graduate School of Business
    Faculty of Education, Language Studies and Social Work (ELSSW)
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25504
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Until recently economics and economic theory was regarded as an implicit component of socialwork education. Recent years, however, have hosted a shift in social work education,accompanied by a parallel diminution of economic content within the social work curriculum.This paper considers the repercussions and implications of these educational developments, forsocial work practice and specifically the articulation of social work voices within the public socialpolicy arena. As a means of exploring these themes this paper documents and discusses thedata collected from a survey of fourth year social work students at a Western Australianuniversity. Providing a localized analysis, the survey responses illustrate the degree ofdisconnectedness in student understandings of economic and social phenomenon. Comparativedata from a survey of undergraduate commerce students are similarly employed to highlight thecritical role of social work education in the development of more inclusive social policy.

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