- 236 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Involved in educating social work professionals? Overwhelmed and demoralised by the current climate of cuts to services and over-regulation? This unique book written by practice educators, students and academics offers hope. This collection of innovative approaches to social work placements addresses subjects including sustainability, student-led services, overseas placements, the value of the third-sector, supporting students from minority groups and the visual arts. The international and diverse contributions offer practical guidance and challenge conventional approaches to placement finding, teaching and assessment in field education. Written from a global social work perspective this is essential reading for anyone responsible for ensuring quality placements for future professionals.
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Table of contents
- PRACTICE PLACEMENT IN SOCIAL WORK
- Contents
- Foreword
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- 1. Student-led services
- 2. International placements: learning from a distance
- 3. The outside looking in: an independent social worker’s experience of practice educator work
- 4. ‘Do you have to be white to pass this course?’ Developing support for black and minority ethnic students in a predominantly white area
- 5. Men in social work education: building a gendered alliance
- 6. Hidden in plain sight: use of an arts-based method for critical reflection
- 7. Getting our hands dirty: reconnecting social work education as if the earth matters
- 8. Social media for students in practice
- 9. Developing placement capacity in the third sector
- 10. Observations of student practice: what difference does observer qualification make?
- 11. Filling the gap: constructive responses to the erosion of training standards for practice educators
- 12. The concept of integrity in relation to failing and marginal students
- 13. Cultivating discretion: social work education in practice and the academy
- Index