Some Perspectives on Social Work Education at the Undergraduate Level in Hawaii,Minnesota and "Elsewhere''

Abstract

Undergraduate education for social workers is very much on our minds these days as social workers and educators. How will it relate to programmes of the "established" past? How to the "real world" in the last quarter of the second millenium? James Wiebler, who has been a teacher in undergraduate and graduate social work programmes at the University of Minnesota since 1966, and previous to that at Loyola University in Chicago and the ENSISS School of Social Work in Milan, Italy, was stimulated to write this article by experiences he 'has had while serving as consultant to the Undergraduate Committee of the School of Social Work of the University of Hawaii during the Fall Semester of 1974, just ended. Wiebler is a past NASW Chapter chairman in Illinois.