Sources of knowledge for practice
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This article examines the concept of practice knowledge and its relationship to the use of various sources of knowledge to perform specific job tasks. The authors sent questionnaires to social workers who had received master's degrees two and seven years previously from two Northwestern U.S. universities, and received responses from 90 for a response rate of 41 percent. The questionnaires solicited information on the use and ratings of various knowledge sources in the respondents' work. The respondents indicated they used various sources in various ways, but the findings show only a weak correspondence between the importance assigned to the sources and how frequently they were used. The authors suggest a need exists to explore how different knowledge sources are synthesized into information applicable to the work setting, and propose that practice knowledge be examined in terms of such a synthesis. They further argue that knowledge synthesis may play a major role in knowledge use and in various problem-solving and decision-making processes outside the human services. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-8863
Year: 1987
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Translating legal rights into management practice: overcoming barriers to the exercise of co-management
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Five strategies successfully used by American Indian tribes and government and environmentalist groups in co-managing the protection of fish and wildlife habitat in Washington state are discussed. Issue networks/alliances, legislation and threatened legislative amendments, threat of greater regulation and public review, court action and threat of court action to reform laws and amend regulations and moves to prevent conversion of forest land to real estate are employed to bring the logging industry to the negotiating table and to encourage implementation at various stages.
Publication Name: Human Organization
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0018-7259
Year: 1992
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Values or views of government? Analyzing the ideological sources of public policy preferences
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The causal roles of policy-specific values and people's general views of government as sources of preferences for governmental action in various policy domains are analyzed. The analysis used data from a state-level survey and two national surveys as well as ordered logit models. The results are discussed taking into account their significance to understanding some of the popular bases of support for efforts to restrict the scope of government role in social welfare programs.
Publication Name: Social Science Research
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0049-089X
Year: 1999
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