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One of the main troubles with ‘theory’ is the way many people are introduced to it. It is always portrayed as in some way special and separate from practice. In both social work and trade union politics, people tend to talk about it as external to their day-to-day lives, something that has to be ‘dealt’ with as the precursor to the real activity of practice.
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© 1988 Paul Joyce, Paul Corrigan and Mike Hayes
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Joyce, P., Corrigan, P., Hayes, M. (1988). Making Sense of History. In: Striking Out. Critical Texts in Social Work and the Welfare State. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19182-6_6
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