Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning in Social Work: Current Issues and Future Direction

This book focuses on the present development, gradual evolution, and current status of social work continuing education. The contributors demonstrate the rapidly growing importance of continuing education (CE) in the social work profession; look closely at present trends; and address the emerging pedagogical issues that will likely frame the future. The rapid expansion of CE offerings is partly stimulated by CE now being a licensure renewal requirement across the United States, which quite clearly is having a central impact in expanding the demand for CE education and lifelong learning for professional practice.

Relevant for social work students, graduates and educators, in the USA and abroad, this book represents an authoritative statement, authored by widely recognized educators and practitioners who are on the forefront of continuing education and lifelong learning.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Teaching in Social Work.

Paul A. Kurzman holds a dual appointment as a Professor of Social Work at the Silberman School of Hunter College, USA, and as a Professor of Social Welfare at The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, USA, where he teaches policy and practice in the MSW and PhD programs. He is an author or editor of 10 books, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Teaching in Social Work, and a frequent provider of continuing education lectures, trainings, and workshops. Dr. Kurzman holds a BA from Princeton University, an MSW from Columbia University, and a PhD from New York University.