Social Work Supervision: Contributing to Innovative Knowledge Production and Open Expertise

Abstract

The construction and development of knowledge and expertise has become the central focus of organizational development and organizational learning in the rapidly changing societies of our postmodern era. This is also opening a new role for professional supervision, especially in the field of social work. Our understanding of knowledge and knowledge creation is changing. Knowledge and expertise are understood to be in a new way reflexive by their nature very much due to contingency and ambiguity in our postmodern world. There is a shift from acquisition and transmission of knowledge to construction and invention of knowledge, towards innovative knowledge production. Expertise shows itself more and more as a mechanism of reframing problems, which incorporates not only scientific judgements or technical decisions but also more basic and deeper social and cultural predispositions and commitments (Erasaari, 2003). In social work this shift towards constructive expertise matches the urge to cope with the ever-changing complexity that has to be dealt with in the everyday practices of the profession.

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