Teaching note – Innovating the curriculum: Bringing history back into social work education
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2024
Journal articles
Abramovitz, M., Curran, L., Harty, J. S., Toft, J., & Tomczak, S. M. Teaching note – Innovating the curriculum: Bringing history back into social work education. Journal of Social Work Education, 1–7.
@article{abramovitz2024, title = {Teaching Note -- {Innovating} the Curriculum: {Bringing} History Back into Social Work Education}, shorttitle = {Teaching {Note}—{Innovating} the {Curriculum}}, author = {Abramovitz, Mimi and Curran, Laura and {Harty, Justin S.} and Toft, Jessica and Tomczak, Stephen Monroe}, date = {2024}, journaltitle = {Journal of Social Work Education}, shortjournal = {J. Soc. Work Educ.}, pages = {1--7}, issn = {1043-7797, 2163-5811}, doi = {10.1080/10437797.2023.2290481}, }
Abstract
History, the major storehouse of information, informs us about the important relationship between people and society and increases our understanding of basic societal values and institutional arrangements. A recent New York Times op-ed described “The Dangerous Decline of the Historical Profession.” Likewise for historical content in social work education, exacerbated by the 1970s‘ rise of neoliberalism and the profession’s long marginalization of historical research and teaching. The Social Welfare History Group renews its call to bring historical content back into social work education and to correct its deep-seated race, class, gender, and colonizing distortions. To ensure that all social work courses include history, we can revive the value historical knowledge; prepare a cadre of historical researchers and instructors; financially support emerging scholars and develop a pipeline of historyinformed faculty to teach the next generation of social workers.