1.Introduction. 2.Theorising common sense. 3.History, common sense and the ‘unmarried mother’ in Ireland. 4.Bowlbyism, common sense and child attachment theory. 5. Common sense creativity. 6.Social work, common sense and anti-anger ideology. 7.Common sense social work and ambivalent allure of human rights. 8.Colonial common sense and ‘decolonising’ social work. 9.Latin American challenges to the common sense of the global north. 10.Conclusion – Towards a new common sense for social work?
Paul Michael Garrett has been described, by the International Journal of Social Welfare, as 'probably the most important critical social work theorist in the English-speaking world'. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and works in Galway. The author of several books, his most recent is Dissenting Social Work, published by Routledge in 2021.