SOWK 602 Pioneer Paper
SOWK 602 Pioneer Paper
The historical intellectual biographies of African American social work pioneers (Carlton-LaNey, 1990) builds students’ skills in using primary and secondary historical data to recover the contributions indigenous behavioral health, community organizing, mutual aid, and race-conscious work that contributes to contemporary practice of the profession. Each student will select an African American Social Welfare Pioneer from the attached list and prepare a scholarly paper based on the guidelines from Carlton-LaNey, I. (1990). The intellectual biography: A mechanism for integrating historical content.
SOCIAL WELFARE PIONEER PAPER EXPECTATIONS
Artifact ___
Chosen from scholar list on page 24 of syllabus __
Noted societal responses to scholars ideas ___
Publications of scholarly writings __
Scholars geographical reach regarding ideas –national, regional or local___
Discuss conclusions about the pioneer’s motives for action ___
Include one of the core theories of urban social work
Discuss implications and draw conclusions about pioneer’s contribution to current social work practice __
APA format _
Scholarly paper (6 pages)


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