The Classroom Teacher as Practitioner

Abstract

The aim of professional education is to convey knowledge in such a way that the student may not merely possess it but use it. Furthermore, its aim is to train for tomorrow's practice. From its very nature social work education operates under fast-changing conditions which continuously challenge its content and its processes. It follows, therefore, that students in a school of social work are not to be regarded as so many jugs to be filled with a content that is to be preserved for all time. Instead they must learn to use certain knowledge in an ongoing way. Hence the educator's constant concern is that stu-