ABSTRACT
My aim in the chapter is to facilitate the reader in gaining competence – and confidence – in asking tricky questions about knowledge for social work practice and research. Knowing how and when to ask the right questions – of oneself and others – and to gain an appropriate disposition towards social work knowledge, are hard won and more easily lost. Once lost, there is a danger of wrenching doing apart from knowing, so that no-one recognizes the importance of the question, ‘How do I know when I have got it right?’ Much of this book will be more readily understood and assessed if we undertake some preliminary ground clearing.
