Social Media in Social Work Education

Joanne Westwood

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040375167
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Index: Social Sciences

There has been a recent growth in the use of social media tools in social work education. This edited text presents a series of chapters which discuss social media activities and how they can contribute to student learning, and social work practice. The contributors, all innovators in the use of social media, introduce the landscape and discuss how social media activities have begun to impact on both social work education and on practice. The professional codes of practice and the values and ethics questions such activities can raise are introduced and explored across the chapters.

Packed with practical examples and exercises, this innovative textbooks is a useful tool for students, practitioners and academics new to using social media in their teaching.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Meet the authors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. Obstacles to and engagement with social media
• 2. Student social workers use of social media: findings from a cross-national survey
• 3. Using closed Facebook groups to teach social work skills, values, and approaches for social media
• 4. When actual meets virtual; social work book groups as a teaching and learning medium in social work education
• 5. New technology in social work education: blogs and blogging
• 6. Creating #team turner: an autoethnography of connection within social work education
• Conclusions
• Glossary
• References
• Appendix: Social media activities in social work education
• Index