Reconstructing Social Work Education

Understanding social work education requires a long view of history as well as a sense of where social work fits in a larger process of social change and how it can contribute to a radical revisioning of professional education. In this paper a dynamic educational model is proposed, in which the de-centering of knowledge as a fact to knowing as a process is proposed and "lived experience" becomes the central focus of professional attention. At the center of this construction is a new relationship among theory, values, and practice.