Diverse pipers, discordant tunes? Delivering robust social work education in an environment of new legislation and competing influences
Keywords:
social work education, Social Workers Registration Act,Abstract
‘From street to street he piped advancing
And step for step they followed dancing’ (Browning, 2006).
This position paper uses the poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin as a metaphor to describe the relationship between the world of social work education and those that seek to influence it. Various pipers and their tunes are identified and their impact on social work education analysed. The paper will consider a possible response to dealing with these diverse and discordant tunes.
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