101799: Following in Jane Addams' Footsteps

About the Course:

Social work socialization is a lifelong process that shapes social values and ethics for students, professors, and professional social workers. It is both a subjective spiritual journey of identification with heroes and a more objective journey to satisfactorily understand society and its structures. Jane Addams’ life and metatheoretical vision of democracy and social ethics offer social work a much needed direction for the 21st century.

Journal/Publisher:

The Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics

Publication Date:

Fall 2009, Vol. 6, No. 3

Author

Rosalie V. Otters, Ph.D.

About the Author:

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Recommended For:

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially psychologists, counselors, social workers, and nurses who seek knowledge about Jane Addams’ life, democracy and social ethics. It is appropriate for all levels of participants’ knowledge.

Course Objectives:

1. Explain how could Jane Addams’ vision provides a new direction for social work.

2. Describe the contribution of Jane Addams to social work and other fields.

3. Identify how social work values and ethics influence socialization.

4. Identify how belief in a social democracy can provide a metatheory for social work.