Much has been said and argued for the past several years over the epistemological issue in the social work. Gordon and Fischer have addressed a major epistemological issue in the social work.
Fischer insists that a quiet revolution has been taking p...
Much has been said and argued for the past several years over the epistemological issue in the social work. Gordon and Fischer have addressed a major epistemological issue in the social work.
Fischer insists that a quiet revolution has been taking place in social work which develops and uses knowledge for practice. And he reviews the evidence of this change, rioting that new forms of knowledge with the potentials to enhance every pratitioner's effectiveness are already available, and discusses the prospects for the revolution's success.
On the other hand, Gordon criticizes Fischer's proclamation of a Kuhnian-type revolution in social work, and he reviews the slow development of social work thinking about the person-environment interface as an evolutionary process. These two different perspectives have given a lot of affect on the ways of social work theory development.
In the first part, I will present and compare the main theme of each scholar and in the second part, I will take my position and rationalize it.