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5.7 Summary

This section of the unit has made you aware that:

  • science is formed by a community of practice, creating knowledge and requiring a special language for its communication;

  • there is a difference between objective scientific methods and subjective ways of knowing;

  • political power influences scientific discoveries, and scientific knowledge is always socially embedded;

  • public understanding and perception of scien
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References

Brooker, L. (2002) Starting School: Young children learning about cultures, Buckingham and Philadelphia, Open University Press.
Brown, A. L, Ash, D., Rutherford, M., Nakagawa, K., Gordon, A. and Campione, J. C. (1993) ‘Distributed expertise in the classroom’ in Salomon, G. (ed.) Distributed Cognitions: Psychological and educational considerations, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

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4.4 An international definition of social work

The function of social work is not only defined by the philosophies and beliefs of individual nations' governments or assemblies. The following definition of social work was issued jointly by the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) and by the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) in 2001:

The social work profession promotes social change, problem solving in human relationships and th
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Research 102 What I didn't learn in my research methods course
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