Abstract
This paper argues that a critical analysis of the ideologies that inform contemporary child care has been missing from the ‘re-focusing debate’. Such an analysis points up the necessity of reasserting a critical social work position in order to provide a basis for reconstructing practice and engaging with other social actors and their ideologies in an open and creative fashion compatible with Habermas’ aspiration of ‘communicative reason’.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 315-324 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Child and Family Social Work |
Volume | 4 |
Publication status | Published - 1999 |