Spirit and Substance: Beginnings in the Education of Radical Social Workers

Abstract

The seemingly boundless subject of Human Behavior and Social Environment necessitates that difficult choices be made about what is to be taught and mastered in a social work curriculum. An approach to guide these choices is provided in a framework that includes a superordinate ideal of freedom and a central, integrating idea or theory of alienation. Derived from a revised understanding of professions and a generative metaphysics for social work, this framework seems applicable to the whole social work curriculum.