Practice Placement in Social Work: Innovative Approaches for Effective Teaching and Learning

ISBN-13: 9781447318613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 236 str.

Opis

Drawing on a diverse range of international contributors, both students and practitioners, this unique book presents a collection of innovative new approaches to social work placements. Chapters highlight key issues like sustainability, student-led services, overseas placements, the value of the third sector, support for students from minority groups, and the visual arts. It challenges not only conventional approaches to placement finding but also teaching and assessment in field education. In a global climate of cuts to services and over-regulation, Practice Placement in Social Work offers practical guidance grounded in strong theoretical frameworks, giving hope to anyone responsible for ensuring quality placements for future professionals.

Spis treści

Foreword ~ Mark Doel; Introduction ~ Avril Bellinger and Deirdre Ford; Student-led services ~ Avril Bellinger and Doris Testa; International placements: learning from a distance ~ Hayley Smith and Victoria Sharley; The outside looking in – an independent social worker’s experience of practice educator work ~ Kate Hazel; 'Do you have to be white to pass this course?' Developing support for black and minority ethnic students in a predominantly white area ~ Sharon Soper and Geraldine Blomfield, with Monica Mullings and Sibonginskosi Ndimande; Men in social work education: building a gendered alliance ~ Peter Brown, Michael Cook, Christopher Higgins, Dean Matthews, Daniel Wilding and Andrew Whiteford; Hidden in plain sight: use of an arts-based method for critical reflection ~ Annastasia Maksymluk; Getting our hands dirty: reconnecting social work education as if the earth matters ~ Andrew Whiteford; Social media for students in practice ~ Joanne Westwood; Developing placement capacity in the third sector ~ Sallie Allison, Dawn Clarke, Hannah Jago and Margaret Jelley; Observations of student practice: what difference does observer qualification make? ~ David Neal and Angie Regan; Filling the gap: constructive responses to the erosion of training standards for practice educators ~ Julie Mann; The concept of integrity in relation to failing and marginal students ~ Cherie Appleton and Carole Adamson; Cultivating discretion: social work education in practice and the academy ~ Avril Bellinger, Deirdre Ford and Beth Moran.