Katherine A. Kendall has drawn from the extensive archives of the Council on Social Work Education and the University of Minnesota's Social Welfare Library to tell the story of the creation and first twenty years of CSWE. Part one recounts how confrontation gave way to cooperation between the National Association of Schools of Social Administration and the American Association of Schools of Social Work to launch CSWE in 1952. In part two Kendall discusses the struggles and accomplishments of the Council in its first twenty years, including events that occurred in her tenure as executive director. During this time the Council focused its efforts on the quantity and quality of personnel working in social welfare--quantity by concentrating on recruitment efforts nationwide and quality by honing a curriculum that would produce skilled social work professionals. Throughout the text Kendall quotes extensively from key sources, providing keen insight to the forces that were defining social work as a profession in the middle of the last century. More than an account of the organization's history, this text gives a broad-minded perspective on central themes in social work education today.
Council on Social Work Education
We are a nonprofit national association representing individual members and graduate and undergraduate programs of professional social work education. Founded in 1952, this partnership of educational and professional institutions, social welfare agencies, and private citizens is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation as the sole accrediting agency for social work education in this country.
CSWE Press is a niche publisher that addresses the needs of social work educators. Some of our areas of publishing specialty are
-The philosophy, theory, and practice of teaching
-The process and evaluation of learning
-The organization and structure of social work education
-Diversity in all forms in social work practice and education
-Social work in multiple contexts
