304 research outputs found
Evidence in action: a Thompsonian perspective on evidence-based decision-making in social work
Evidence-based practice presupposes evidence-based decision-making. In the debate it is argued that a social work fashioned after evidence should be more rational, less authoritarian and built on scientific knowledge, respect and ethics. Yet the empirical evidence that this idea works is weak. In fact the difficulties met during efforts to implement evidence could be a sound reaction. Indeed difficulties experienced could be a defensive organizational reaction to a new, disturbing technology. In this article James D. Thompson’s classical study Organizations in Action from 1967 is applied to evidence-based decision-making in social work. It shows to date that many problems have been given, at best, tenuous attention. It is argued that a focus on evidence will raise ambiguity and complexity levels within organizations and that new professional specialists will emerge. Further, new constellations of power will appear, leading to a change of balance within the domains of social work
Consideration of practice education within a regional teaching partnership employing a communities of practice lens
Critically Reflective Work Behaviour Within Autonomous Professionals’ Learning Communities
Mitigation of gvhd in lethally irradiated mice grafted with spleen cells adherent to glass beads. Abstr.
Mechanisms of Immunity in Typhus Infections IV. Failure of Chicken Embryo Cells in Culture to Restrict Growth of Antibody-Sensitized Rickettsia prowazeki
Mitigation of graft-versus-host disease in lethally irradiated mice grafted with spleen cells adherent to glass beads.
Rickettsial Infectious Antibody Complexes: Detection by Antiglobulin Plaque Reduction Technique
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