What is the role of science in social work? Ian Shaw considers social work inventions, evidence-based practice, the history of scientific claims in social work

"Science is a way of thinking about and investigating the accuracy of assumptions about the world. It is a process for solving problems in which we learn from o

Examines Social Work from a scientific position. Looks at what knowledge social workers need, and what knowledge they use in their case work.

Failing at Fairness, the result of two decades of research, shows how gender bias makes it impossible for girls to receive an education equal to that given to b

This text provides graduate students going into the social work field with real world and practical information about what it is really like to work as a social