Abstract:This chapter will present the organisational sociology model of isomorphic convergences and suggest it is a useful mode of analysis for understanding developments in contemporary social work education including the work of the International Association of Schools of Social Work in promoting shared understandings and global standards. Some of the benefits and some of the risks that standardization and convergence offers social work education will be considered whilst a critique of the model and ways in which it… Show more
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