Is Social Work a Profession?

Abraham Flexner

Description

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. If there is a dancing profession, a baseball profession, an acting profession, a nursing profession, an artistic proies sion, a musical profession, a literary profession, a medical profession, and a legal profession - to mention no others - the term profession is too vague to be fought for. We may as well let down the bars and permit people to call themselves professional, for no better reason than that they choose in this way to appropriate whatever of social distinction may still cling to a term obviously abused.

Sujets

• Éducation
• Education

Informations

• Publié par: Forgotten Books
• Date de parution: 27 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780243778805
• Langue: English

Extrait

O IA

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