Not either/or but both/and: An Academic/field partnership in practice |
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| Authors: | Bill Anscombe |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Child and Family Services Western Area, Department of Community Services , E-mail: bill.anscombe@community.nsw.gov.au;2. Charles Sturt University , E-mail: Banscombe@csu.edu.au |
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| Abstract: | Abstract The relationship between academia and the field and between theory and practice is often characterised in both the literature and the everyday practice of social work as either one or the other. In this paper, the author argues for a constructive integration of both/and rather than either/or. The paper reports on a constructive organisational partnership between academia and a field of practice that supports a both/and view. |
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| Keywords: | social work partnerships child protection |
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