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Item Answering the Critics: The Inherent Value of Social Work(University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, 2006) Kindle, Peter A.Birthed in the squalor and hardship of the late 19th century ethnic slums of Chicago and New York, social work has struggled since its inception. This struggle has been on two fronts: first, social work has struggled to make a difference in the lives of the destitute; and secondly, social work has struggled to develop a self-confident professional identity. Nearly a century since Abraham Flexner’s denial (1915) of professional status to social work, these struggles have yet to be clearly resolved.Item Book Review O’Connor, A. (2001). Poverty knowledge: Social science, social policy, and the poor in twentieth-century U. S. history. Princeton: Princeton University Press.(University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, 2009) Kindle, Peter A.In less than 300 pages of text, Alice O’Connor, currently associate professor of history at the University of California at Santa Barbara, unveils how knowledge is constructed and how, once constructed, knowledge can become fodder for ideology and political manipulation. Thus used (or abused), knowledge shapes both the institutions (i.e., policies, procedures, eligibility standards) and the broader cultural meanings associated with the concept of poverty. Her central premise, written self-consciously in the frustrating (to liberals) period following the end of welfare promised in the 1994 Clinton welfare reform, is that future solutions to the problem of poverty are contingent upon “a redirection in contemporary social scientific poverty knowledge” (p. 4). Yet this volume does not contain a detailed blueprint for a future research agenda. In fact, she claims that “reconstructing poverty knowledge is more than simply a matter of generating new research questions for social scientists to pursue” (p. 8). What O’Connor is attempting to do is to awaken in her readers a deeper understanding of how knowledge is socially constructed. Her history of poverty knowledge becomes, then, a kind of case study or primer on how social scientists who desire to make a contemporary impact on social policy need to reflectively process the institutional, societal, and cultural import of their work.Item Counterpoint(University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, 2005) Kindle, Peter A.Peter A. Kindle's counterpoint to Howard Karger's "Reforming the Dissertation Process".Item Editorial from Perspectives on Social Work Volume 3 (Fall 2005)(University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, 2005) Russell, Amy; Kindle, Peter A.Editorial for volume 3 of Perspectives on Social Work, by journal editors Amy Russell (LMSW) & Peter Kindle (MA, MDiv)Item EDITORIAL FROM PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL WORK VOLUME 3 (FALL 2005)(University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, 2005) Kindle, Peter A.Editorial for volume 3 of Perspectives on Social Work, by journal editors Amy Russell (LMSW) & Peter Kindle (MA, MDiv)Item Perspectives on Social Work Volume 3 (Fall 2005)(University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, 2005) Russell, Amy; Kindle, Peter A.; Próspero, Moisés; Nevarez, Lucinda; Willis, Nicole; Lo, Elsie; Vohra-Gupta, Shetal; Church, Lisiane; Trachte, Brian; Karger, Howard; Mapp, SusiThis is the full-text volume of Perspectives on Social Work, vol. 3 (Fall 2005).Item PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL WORK VOLUME 3 (Spring 2005)(University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, 2005) Russell, Amy; Norman, Gary L.; Próspero, Moisés; Willis, Nicole; Needham, Brett; Kindle, Peter A.This is the full-text volume of Perspectives on Social Work, vol. 3 (Spring 2005).Item Perspectives on Social Work Volume 4 (Fall 2006)(University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, 2006) Russell, Amy; Kindle, Peter A.; Humble, Michael N.; Cabin, William D.; Shaw, Terry V.; Pittman, Donna R.This is the full-text volume of Perspectives on Social Work, vol. 4 (Fall 2006).Item Perspectives on Social Work Volume 7 (Spring 2009)(University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, 2009) Scott, Stephanie; Young, Sharon L.; Krishna, Mohan V.; Temme, Leslie J.; Rosich, Gina; Sarabia, Stephanie Elias; Wang, Donna; Elias-Lambert, Nada; Kindle, Peter A.This is the full-text volume of Perspectives on Social Work, vol. 7 (Spring 2009).