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

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Bellinger, Avril, Ford, Deirdre
Policy Press, Jan 13, 2016 - Education - 236 pages
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.
 

Contents

learning from a distance
21
Three The outside looking in an independent social workers
39
Four Do you have to be white to pass this course? Developing
55
building a gendered alliance
71
use of an artsbased method for
87
reconnecting social work
103
Eight Social media for students in practice
121
what difference
149
constructive responses to the erosion of
165
Twelve The concept of integrity in relation to failing and
181
social work education in practice
203
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Avril Bellinger, Honorary Associate Professor in Social Work at University of Plymouth and academic activist, is the founder and Chair of Students and Refugees Together (START). Deirdre Ford is a registered social worker, associate of Research in Practice and trustee of Students and Refugees Together (START).

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