Education for Policy Making at the Direct Service and Local Levels

Abstract

Direct service practitioners make policy decisions in everyday practice: individual decisions in the aggregate coalesce into macro-phenomena that affect units, agencies, and sets of agencies; social workers contribute to policy determination of varying scope on the agency and local level. Social work education should prepare practitioners for these roles in new ways, develop new configurations of knowlege, and create new curriculum emphases. Options, barriers, and implications for education for social work practice are explored. This perspective can help to bridge the gap between “social policy” and “direct” practice education and help graduates make constructive use of the “free spaces” within social agencies.

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