Types of Knowledge, Forms of Practice

Authors

Margaret Arnd-Caddigan, East Carolina UniversityFollow
Richard Pozzuto, East Carolina UniversityFollow

Abstract

This study was designed to explore the way that us e of theory influenced a social worker’s conceptualization of a simulated case. The participant in this case study was a woman employed in child welfare, who holds an MSW. She was chosen because her response in a larger study represented a deviant case. Data analysis included both thematic analysis and an analysis of a written report based on ideas taken from institutional ethnography. The authors use this case example to illustrate the ways that one’s understanding of theory may impact social work practice.

Keywords

Technical-Rational Practice, Reflective Practice, Social Work Practice, and Institutional Ethnography

Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank the College of Human Ecology at East Carolina University for providing funding for this project.

Publication Date

3-1-2008

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2008.1606

Recommended APA Citation

Arnd-Caddigan, M., & Pozzuto, R. (2008). Types of Knowledge, Forms of Practice. The Qualitative Report, 13(1), 61-77. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2008.1606