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Knowledge Use as Knowledge Creation Reexamining the Contribution of the Social Sciences to Decision Making
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The use of social science knowledge by policymakers has fallen short of what many social scientists would prefer Research that supports this conclusion may be flawed by a methodological bias that overlooks the variety of knowledge sources used by decision makers as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
The use of social science knowledge by policymakers has fallen short of what many social scientists would prefer Research that supports this conclusion may be flawed by a methodological bias that overlooks the variety of knowledge sources used by decision makers A survey of social workers that measures knowledge use from the perspective of the user, rather than the producer, of information identifies three types of knowledge sources, all of which are integrated in the decision-making process We argue here for a shift in the direction of knowledge utilization research that will recognize similarities between knowledge use and knowledge creationread more
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The utilization process: A conceptual framework and synthesis of empirical findings.
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Knowledge for Practice
Martin Rein,Sheldon H. White +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the knowledge-into-skills story fully explains social work practices and that practice is often ineffective and tends to throw social workers into moral quandaries, leaving them to practice in a context of faith and doubt.
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Defining Empirically Based Practice.
TL;DR: The lack of rapport between tween researchers and practitioners and problems with the methods used in schools of social work to teach them to read research articles, make use of research findings, and evaluate their work using research methods as discussed by the authors.
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The Selection of Knowledge from the Behavioral Sciences and its Integration into Social Work Curricula
TL;DR: For instance, this paper reported that 1,217 books were published in the social sciences in the United States in 1958 and 11,479 books in the USSR in the same year.