The Tapestry of Social Care Work History: A Pointillism Approach

Kara O’Neil

The Tapestry of Social Care Work History: A Pointillism Approach

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The Tapestry of Social Care Work History: A Pointillism Approach. / O’Neil, Kara.
In: Social Work and Society, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2025.

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title = "The Tapestry of Social Care Work History: A Pointillism Approach",

abstract = "This paper postulates that the understood {\textquoteleft}early history{\textquoteright} of social care work must be re-evaluated using methodology intended to deconstruct, decolonize, and delineate historical events from the current, common patriarchal influence of modern teachings. This paper disagrees with a history of social care work that too narrowly focuses on several male theorists of social care work but only a few pioneering female practitioners, resulting in a gendered bias of social care history. Previous historical methodologies have left social care work bereft of inclusivity and without a thorough investigation of the epistemological base of social care work(s) prior to professionalization. A more advanced history of social care work requires a new approach to historical documents which attempts to build or construct a more inclusive historical base of social care work. The Pointillism Approach offers a step-by-step model with which social care work historians can re-analyze and reinterpret important events in the development of social care work by evaluating hegemonic paradigms of care-work foundations.",

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