Practice Placement in Social Work: Innovative Approaches for Effective Teaching and LearningBellinger, Avril, Ford, Deirdre 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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