Full Description
Social work programs and schools are flourishing in every corner of the globe, but especially in east and south-east Asia. As social work extends its influence across the region, it includes an increasing variety of theories and practices. Nevertheless, field education and supervision remain at the centre of any social work program and are the cornerstones of professional development for the social worker. Field education fosters international exchange and students can learn about international and cross-cultural social work.
While we celebrate this growth, it is important not only to explore the common factors, experiences and agreements but also to identify differences and challenges. Social work field education and supervision across Asia Pacific, the second book in the series on social work in the region, considers those challenges and brings together ideas, practices and recent developments. Working in partnerships with colleagues and students across Asia Pacific, contributors explore their field and supervision experiences through the cultural lenses of different countries and cultures.
Social work academics, field educators, supervisors and students of many nations will find this book helpful as the profession takes on the challenge of working across languages, cultures and values in developing their vision for a more socially inclusive world. The editors and contributors, who are engaged in a broad array of professional interests, hope that readers will find this book both inspiring and challenging as they teach and learn from each other across Asia Pacific.
Contents
Preface
Postscript to this edition
Setting the scene: from theory to context
1. Field education: supervision, curricula and teaching methods
Carolyn Noble
2. Current Australian programs for international field placements
Helen Cleak and Mim Fox
3. Collaboration between field education faculty and field supervisor in Korea [in Korean]
Soo Mi Jang
Placement experiences: from Indigenous to international
4. Indigenous social work education and training in Australia
Sue Green and Eileen Baldry
5. International student placements: working with the challenges and opportunities
Deborah West and Dan Baschiera
6. Australian social work students in Vietnam: the collision of cultural difference
Peter Garrity
7. A Vietnamese and Australian cross-cultural field placement using community arts to heal and prevent child trafficking
Amanda Nickson, Catherine Briscoe, Skye Maconachie and Michael Brosowski
8. Violence against women: critical feminist theory, social action and social work in the Philippines
Annalisa Enrile and Jennifer Nazareno
9. International field education and international social work: experiences of Australian and Belgian students in the Philippines
Nilan G. Yu
10. Community engagement: manager's viewpoints
Patricia Hanlen
11. From Alaska to New Zealand: lessons from an international social work placement
Kathryn Hay, Mathew Keen, Marjorie Thomson and Janet Emerman
Responding to the policy environment
12. Social work field education in Taiwan: past, present and future [in Chinese]
Betty Y. Weng
13. A historical change in social work education and the problems of present practicum education in Japan [in Japanese]
Mazakasu Sirasawa
Supervision: from frameworks to practice
14. Ways of thinking about field education and supervision: building a critical perspective
Carolyn Noble
15. Learning opportunities of social work group supervision and peer learning
Rob Townsend, Natasha Long and Robyn Trainor
16. Use of self in practice: a framework for integrating personal and professional knowledge
Jay Marlowe and Shirley-Ann Chinnery
17. Social work student placements with external supervision: last resort or value-adding in Asia-Pacific?
Ines Zuchowski
Contributors
