Work

The Decline of the Public Intellectual in Social Work

Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: This article examines reasons for social work's abandonment of public discourse, activism and intellectual life. It also explores strategies to encourage the profession to reenter public life and develop a modern cadre of social work identified public intellectuals. Specifically, this process entails professional and academic reform and a renewed vision around the social justice mission of social work.
Language: English
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1507200340
FWCI: 1.993
Cites: 27
Cited by: 46
Related to: 10