The Institutional Development of Social Work Education

Abstract

This overview traces the institutional development of social work education through its first century of existence, covering antecedents, early training schools, disparate philosophies, and repeated expansion. The discussion focuses on factors that have shaped the development of social work education, among them external funding, the career goals of students, and various internal tensions resulting from conflicting visions.

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David M. Austin

This article grew out of a study of individual histories of 70 graduate schools of social work that were accredited by 1970. An expanded analysis of the individual histories will be published as a monograph by the School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin in 1998.