Are curriculum decisions based on the evidence? How social work faculty members make choices in curriculum decisions

Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 466-480

  Grady, Melissa D ^a   Rozas, Lisa Werkmeister ^b   Bledsoe, Sarah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Curriculum; Evidence based practice; Social work education

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; SOCIAL WORK; UNIVERSITY;

CURRICULUM; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; FACULTY; HUMANS; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 78549284025     PISSN: 15433714     EISSN: 15433722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15433714.2010.494976     Document Type: Article

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