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Reframing Practitioner Research

Reframing Practitioner Research Ann E. MacEachron & Nora 5. Gustavsson Ann E. MacEachron is professor and Nora 5. Gus- he concept of scientist-practi- Philosophical Challenge tavsson k associate profersor, School of social T tioner has served as a bridge Work, Arfiona State UnlvenQ, Tempe, Arfiona. between the worlds of practice and scientific research since the Beginning in the 1950s, social 1960s (Reid, 1994). Schools of scientists and allied professionals increasingly believed that intellec- social work typically prepare mas- ter's-degree students to use both tual progress would best occur single-case designs to evaluate with the use of the criteria and their own treatment effectiveness methods of the natural sciences. and rapid assessment instruments This emphasis on empiricism or to monitor treatment progress logical positivism meant accepting and outcomes. In this way practi- assumptions such as (a) an empiri- tioners may contribute to the cal reality, or the existence of an knowledge base of social work. empirical world separate from Since the early 1980s, however, human thinking; (b) value-free sci- criticism of this model has been ence, or the existence of universal growing. and causal laws that can be discov- Our purpose in the present ered through the scientific method; essay is to explore http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Families in Society SAGE

Reframing Practitioner Research

MacEachron, Ann E.; Gustavsson, Nora S.
Families in Society , Volume 78 (6): 6 – Dec 1, 1997
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© 1997 Alliance for Strong Families and Communities
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1044-3894
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Ann E. MacEachron & Nora 5. Gustavsson Ann E. MacEachron is professor and Nora 5. Gus- he concept of scientist-practi- Philosophical Challenge tavsson k associate profersor, School of social T tioner has served as a bridge Work, Arfiona State UnlvenQ, Tempe, Arfiona. between the worlds of practice and scientific research since the Beginning in the 1950s, social 1960s (Reid, 1994). Schools of scientists and allied professionals increasingly believed that intellec- social work typically prepare mas- ter's-degree students to use both tual progress would best occur single-case designs to evaluate with the use of the criteria and their own treatment effectiveness methods of the natural sciences. and rapid assessment instruments This emphasis on empiricism or to monitor treatment progress logical positivism meant accepting and outcomes. In this way practi- assumptions such as (a) an empiri- tioners may contribute to the cal reality, or the existence of an knowledge base of social work. empirical world separate from Since the early 1980s, however, human thinking; (b) value-free sci- criticism of this model has been ence, or the existence of universal growing. and causal laws that can be discov- Our purpose in the present ered through the scientific method; essay is to explore

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