Full Description
Professional education through the practicum process enables human service students to apply their skills and prepare themselves for making the transition to practice. In the Field, with its focus on life long learning, helps students to enhance those essential skills and to use them effectively in the formation of sustainable work practices.
The book examines the contemporary context in which learning takes place. It discusses opportunities for embedding action learning into professional practice, and builds on the action learning approach by analysing the learning process and its implications for particular groups and communities. It identifies important knowledge, strategies and skills essential for transforming learning into practice, and is well illustrated by relevant case studies, vignettes and exercises.
Contents
Part 1. The Context of Practice Learning 1. Exploring the Context of Learning 2. Learning Theories and Practice Learning 3. Mapping the Concept of Transformational Learning in Practice Settings 4. Preparing for Learning in a Practice Setting Part 2. The Learning Process 5. Beginning the Processes of Learning in Context 6. Guiding, Mentoring, Coaching and Supervising in an Organisational Environment 7. Practice Learning in Groups8. Evaluation and Assessment: Facing the Challenges Part 3: Applied Contexts of Practice 9. Practice Learning Opportunities in the Context of Aged Care 10. Practice Learning: Child Wellbeing and Child Protection 11. Practice Learning in Community Mental Health 12. Practice Learning: Refugees and Asylum Seekers 13. About the Aboriginal Experience: From Learning to Practice BibliographyIndex
