ABSTRACT
The attractions of instantaneous personal rebirth through political awakening and action are very great. In a world of interminable psychotherapies, and unmanageable social work case-loads, the prospective economy to be obtained through a political, and therefore mass, solution is bound to attract disillusioned personalist change-agents. The planners and managers of the training institutions have been under great pressure to make pedagogical decisions. Indeed some of these decisions have been helped by arguments put forward by politicizers which blurred the issues: many politicizes maintain that they work for a hybridization of the two roles, which they couch in terms of making education more socially conscious and balanced. The new roles, conceived outside the schools of social work at first by politically organized client groups, and later by the schools own disenchanted students and younger faculty members, attracted support also from other disenchanted academics and professionals. The schools began to review their position and their programme.
