Concepts about stages in learning, adult development and education are integrated into a taxonomy for social work education. Phenomena from the domains of attitudes, cognition and skills are ordered into seven stages from entry to mastery attempting to capture the typical progress of a learner in acquiring social work practice skill. A preliminary study indicates that the taxonomy has some hasis in experience for students and field instructors. The taxonomy is advanced as a conceptual tool for directing research efforts as well as educational efforts in the learning of social work practice.
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Holman et al. (1987) studied this question.