Abstract:
This paper proposes postgraduate management education uniquely tailored for social work. The authors suggest that the values and practice standards of the social work profession in Aotearoa New Zealand provide a distinctive framework for management as a field of practice, which includes the bicultural perspective. This framework and elements of the content are described. The paper also explores ways in which the programme could be delivered: online learning, the existing workshop approach, and ,management practicums, using the undergraduate placement model. The authors suggest that social workers, agency managers and postgraduate students would benefit from this approach because the profession would determine its own management theory and practice rather than ,importing, external models.
