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Direct linkCooper, Barry; Broadfoot, Patricia – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2006
The latent power of social work's position at the centre of welfare services and as a coordinator and definer of social realities can be argued to have led social work to become "the assessment profession". Building upon a critique of the key distinction between "description and prescription", we argue that the…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Social Theories, Welfare Services, Social Work
