Knowledge and Reasoning in Social Work: Educating for Humane Judgement
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...…seek out evidence Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/bjsw/article-abstract/38/6/1212/1655039 by University of Tasmania Library user on 15 August 2018 that confirms a hypothesis, rather than searching for ‘disconfirming’ evidence’ (Taylor and White, 2006, p. 939), is termed confirmation bias....
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...To a lesser and greater degree, this understanding will always be incomplete and uneven because, in the realm of human experience, life is unpredictable and uncertainty inevitable (Marris, 1996; Parton, 2000; Taylor and White, 2006)....
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...This can be particularly worrying when a values perspective is being used uncritically or to justify decisions for unsound reasons (Taylor and White, 2006)....
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...Social work, it is argued, has difficulty articulating and demarcating an exclusive knowledge base (Eraut, 1994, p. 3; Taylor and White, 2006) and, perhaps for this reason, what constitutes knowledge within social work continues to be a difficult subject....
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...And just as facts need to be underpinned by theory, theory needs to be underpinned by facts (Taylor and White, 2006)—and both need to underline direct practice to ensure that this is knowledge-based....
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...The use of manuals and procedures has been criticised for not being complex enough to solve social work tasks and for reducing necessary professional reflexivity (see for example Munro, 2008, 2011; Taylor & White, 2001, 2006; White et al., 2009)....
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...Also, emotion and interpretation are seen as important features in social work (Taylor and White, 2006)....
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