Responding to uncertainty:Critical social work education in the postmodern habitat

Journal of Progressive Human Services

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 23-48

  Healy, Karen ^a   Leonard, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Post modernism; Practice; Public policy; Public welfare; Social work education

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008752815     PISSN: 10428232     EISSN: 15407616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J059v11n01_03     Document Type: Article

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