This Handbook provides an authoritative account of international fieldwork education in social work. It presents an overview of advances in research in social work field education through in-depth analyses and global case studies.
Key features:
* Discusses critical issues in teaching social work and curriculum development; health care social work; stimulated learning; field education policies; needs, challenges, and solutions in fieldwork education; reflexivity training; creativity and partnership; resilience enhancement; integrated and holistic education for social workers; student experience; practice education; and ethical responsibility of social work field instructors.
* Covers social work field education across geographical regions (Asia and the Pacific; North and South America; Australia and Oceania; Europe) and major themes and trends from several countries (U.S.A.; Canada; Australia; China; Hong Kong; Sweden; Aotearoa New Zealand; England; Ukraine; Spain; Estonia; Italy; Ireland; Slovenia; Poland; Romania; Greece; Norway; Turkey; and the Czech Republic).
* Brings together international comparative perspectives on fieldwork education in social work from leading experts and social work educators.
This Handbook will be an essential resource for scholars and researchers of social work, development studies, social anthropology, sociology, and education. It will also be useful to educators and practitioners of social work in global institutions of higher studies as well as civil society organisations.
Author(s): Rajendra Baikady, Sajid S. M., Varoshini Nadesan, M. Rezaul Islam
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 615
City: London
Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Signature Pedagogy – A Practice Laboratory of Social Work Education
Part I Transforming Practice Teaching: Perspectives from Asia and the Pacific
Chapter 1 Reclaiming a Macro Lens, Recasting Multilevel Practice: Social Work Field Education in Hong Kong
Chapter 2 Developing Health Care Social Work Curriculum and Arranging Fieldwork Education in China
Chapter 3 Fieldwork Education in Social Work as One Way of Building Bridges between China and Europe
Chapter 4 Field Work Education in Social Work: Perspectives of Vietnamese Social Work Students
Part II Strengthening Field Education in Social Work: The North and South American Experience
Chapter 5 Adopting a Trauma-informed Perspective in the Field Practicum: Current Realities and Future Challenges
Chapter 6 Social Work Field Education in the United States
Chapter 7 It’s Time to Deconstruct the Problematic Attitude of ‘Fieldwork’ of the ‘Global North’!
Chapter 8 Social Work Field Education in Canada
Chapter 9 Integrated and Holistic Education for Social Work: The Special Place of Field Education
Chapter 10 When the Going Gets Tough: Case Studies of Challenge and Innovation in Canadian Field Education
Part III Current Realities of Social Work Field Education in Australia and Oceania
Chapter 11 Social Work Field Education in Australia: Concepts, Challenges, and Twenty-First-Century Concerns
Chapter 12 ‘Getting Used to the First Nations Person in the Room’: A Discussion on Field Practice in Australia
Chapter 13 Aotearoa New Zealand Field Education Practice
Chapter 14 Understanding Simulated Learning and its Relationship to Field Education
Chapter 15 Social Work Field Education in Australia: Issues and Trends
Part IV Social Work Field Education in Europe
Chapter 16 ‘She Subjected Me to Pressure from Everybody in the Team’: Aligning Black African Students’ Experiences of Field Education with Social Workers' Motivations for Becoming Practice Educators in England
Chapter 17 Teaching Field Social Work: Views from Ukrainian Academia
Chapter 18 Professional Placements in Social Work Training in Southern Spain: A Comparison with Other Social Sciences
Chapter 19 Estonian Undergraduate Social Work Students’ Reflections on Field Placement: Challenges for Novice Social Workers
Chapter 20 Fieldwork Education in Social Work in Italy
Chapter 21 A Critical Review of Practice Education in England
Chapter 22 Hearing the Student Voice: An Evaluation of Students’ Experiences and Learning in Fieldwork Education in University College Dublin, Ireland
Chapter 23 Fieldwork in social work education in Slovenia: Needs, challenges and possible solutions
Chapter 24 Prior to Embarking on First Fieldwork Education Exposure: Preparing Social Work Students through Five Experiential Learning Activities
Chapter 25 Reflexivity Development Demonstrated in Examples of Field Placements of Social Work Students
Chapter 26 Experiences of Social Work Fieldwork Education in Romania
Chapter 27 Reflexivity as a Pivotal Component of Fieldwork in Social Work Education
Chapter 28 Unconventional Practice Placements: Creativity, Partnership, and New Professional Opportunities in an Italian Experience of Social Work Field Education
Chapter 29 Construction and Evaluation of Knowledge in Social Work from the Evidence of Professional Internships in Spain
Chapter 30 Character Strengths and Virtues for Competent Fieldwork Education: Perspectives of Undergraduate Students from Two University Departments of Social Work in Greece
Chapter 31 Supervision About Culture and Culture in Supervision: International Field Placement
Chapter 32 Resilience Enhancement in Social Work Field Education
Chapter 33 Social Work Field Instruction in Turkey: Challenges, Problems, and Implications
Part V Social Work Field Education under COVID-19
Chapter 34 The Self-Directed Practicum: An Innovative Response to COVID-19 and a Crisis in Field Education
Chapter 35 COVID-19 Pandemic: A Threat or an Opportunity to Fieldwork Education in England?
Chapter 36 Performance of Volunteering and Work Duties During the Pandemic of COVID-19 in the Czech Republic: Lived Experience of Social Work Students
Conclusion: Technological Advancement and Changing Landscape of Social Work Practice – Challenges Ahead of Next-generation Practitioners
Index
