Full Description
This book collates and analyses the current research, debates, opportunities and practices in social work field education into one volume and contextualises this material within the broader context of social work. Current concerns about risk and uncertainty in field education are explored from multiple stakeholder perspectives.
Social work field education is an integral component of social work education, yet its sustainability is increasingly challenged. Issue such as finding enough quality placements with accredited social workers, curriculum development, student diversity, and placement assessment of learning are being examined by researchers and practitioners alike. This represents a challenge for the social work profession generally. By drawing on traditional and alternative pedagogical perspectives on field education and constructions of risk and uncertainty evident in current discourse, the book presents innovative responses to existing challenges.
Providing a reference point for future knowledge building in sustainable field education pedagogy and practice, this book will interest university field education programs and industry field educators internationally.
Contents
1. Outlining the Context: Australian Social Work Field Education. 2. Australian Field Education in the International Context. 3. Field Education Stakeholders: Untangling the Rhetoric from the Reality. 4. Regulating Field Education: Challenges and Prospects. 5. Pedagogies Informing Social Work Field Education. 6. Integrating Cultural Responsiveness into Social Work Field Education Curriculum: Lessons from the Community. 7. Preparing Students for Field Education Using Simulation-Based Learning. 8. Fit, Suitable or Ready? Taking a Strengths Approach to Student Transition to Placement. 9. The Contribution of Field Education towards Professional Capability. 10. Assessment in Field Education: Capability, Competence and Contradictions. 11. Conceptualising the Liaison Role. 12. Collaboration in Social Work Field Education. 13. Thinking Outside the Square: The Quality and Sustainability of Alternative Placement Models. 14. The Value of Community-Academic-Partnerships in Field Education. 15. Reinvigorating Fields of Practice Through Placement Innovation. 16. Collaborating for the Future of Field Education.
