ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author asserts that the traditional organization of social work curricula is based more on the self-interest of those who develop and deliver it than on its educational utility. In its place, he proposes a new curriculum framework, based on common human needs, that would break down the prevailing tendency to separate the individual from the environment and provide a stronger basis to link theory and practice, ends and means. Rubric is a section heading. The Council on Social Work Education's Curriculum Policy Statement in 1960 and again in 1970 utilized four such section headings in categorizing its curriculum content. Curriculum rubrics that meet three external criteria must necessarily be relevant to the conditions current in the community for which social work interventions are appropriate and to the objectives and goals sought both by those who use and those who support the services provided by social work programs.
