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Sustainable social work: Modelling knowledge production, transfer, and evidence‐based practice
Author(s) -
Gray Mel,
Schubert Leanne
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of social welfare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1468-2397
pISSN - 1369-6866
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2397.2011.00802.x
Subject(s) - tacit knowledge , knowledge transfer , knowledge management , knowledge value chain , production (economics) , work (physics) , bridge (graph theory) , knowledge production , personal knowledge management , context (archaeology) , computer science , organizational learning , engineering , economics , mechanical engineering , medicine , paleontology , biology , macroeconomics
Gray M, Schubert L. Sustainable social work: modelling knowledge production, transfer, and evidence‐based social work This article is a first attempt to present a model of knowledge production and transfer in social work, drawing on the expanding literature on knowledge production. It highlights features of knowledge production in social work, such as the diverse contexts in which knowledge is developed and applied. It argues that knowledge production by itself is not enough. Equally important is knowledge transfer and implementation. The literature on knowledge production highlights problems with the implementation of actually existing knowledge and the potential resistance to this implementation as highly important issues for social work research. It leads to a greater awareness of the context in which knowledge is produced and applied and creates a bridge between traditional informal and tacit ways of knowing in social work and the demands of evidence‐based practice.