Social Policy Course Research Articles

Thomas William Cramp, Almoner: The Forgotten Man in a Female Occupation

Andrew Sackville has experience of working in the Probation Service, Children's Depart ment and Social Services Departments. Since 1975 he has lectured on various Social Policy courses at Edge Hill College, where he is currently Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Social Work, including the MA in Crime, Deviance and Social Policy. He is a former Chair of the Professional Development and Practice Committee of BAS W.

Integrating Ethnic and Minority Group History into Social Welfare Policy and History Courses

Abstract This paper provides guidelines for identifying and integrating context relating to ethnic and minority group history into social welfare history and policy courses. Sources of information are reviewed and the use of local history is discussed. Examples for use in classroom teaching are provided.

Integrating Content on Women into the Social Policy Curriculum: A Continuum Model

Abstract The curriculum mandate of the Council on Social Work Education establishes the need to include nonsexist content on women in social work education. To assist schools in achieving this goal, this paper develops a continuum model containing three options for such integration: minimal, moderate, and maximal. These options are organized around several dimensions: (1) the nature of the mandate to instructors, (2) the degree of comprehensiveness of content about women, and (3) the allocation of curriculum time or space to women's issues. Suggestions for moving an introductory social policy course from the minimal to the moderate option are presented, followed by a discussion of strategies for assessing and creating system readiness for curriculum change within schools of social work.

Issues in Corrections from Both Sides of the Bars

Including prisoners in class with social work students and using the prison as the campus introduced powerful dynamics to a social policy course