Social Workers View Ethnic Minority Teaching

Abstract

Controversy continues concerning the components of effective instruction on ethnic and minority life. This paper reports the results of a study of practicing social workers that was designed to obtain their perception of (1) the importance of instruction on ethnic minority life, (2) their view on whether consideration should be given to faculty ethnic identity in deployment for teaching in this area, and (3) their perspective on the prevailing behavioral science literature. Members of ethnic minorities tended to be critical of the behavioral science literature and were likely to believe that ethnic group membership should be considered in faculty assignment.