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.
Introduction: Signature Pedagogy A Practice Laboratory of Social Work
Education Part I: Transforming Practice Teaching: Perspectives from Asia and
the Pacific
1. Reclaiming a Macro Lens, Recasting Multilevel Practice: Social
Work Field Education in Hong Kong
2. Developing Healthcare Social Work
Curriculum and Arranging Field Work Education in China
3. Fieldwork Education
in Social Work as One Way of Building Bridges Between China and Europe
4.
Fieldwork Education in Social Work: From the Perspectives of Vietnamese
Social Work Students Part II: Strengthening Field Education in Social Work:
The North and South American Experience
5. Adopting a Trauma-Informed
Perspective in the Field Practicum: Current Realities and Future Challenges
6. Social Work Field Education in the United States
7. Its Time to
Deconstruct the Problematic Attitude of Fieldwork of Global North!
8.
Social Work Field Education in Canada
9. Integrated and Holistic Education
for Social Work: The Special Place of Field Education
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
11. Social Work Field Education in Australia: Concepts, Challenges
and 21st-Century Concerns
12. 'Getting Used to the First Nation Person in the
Room: A Discussion on Field Practice in Australia
13. Aotearoa New Zealand
Field Education Practice
14. Understanding Simulated Learning and its
Relationship to Field Education
15. Social Work Field Education in Australia:
Issues and Trends Part IV: Social Work Field Education in Europe
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
17. Teaching Field Social Work: Views
from Ukrainian Academia
18. Professional Placements in Social Work Training
in Southern Spain: A Comparison with Other Social Sciences
19. Estonian
Undergraduate Social Work Students Reflections on the Field Placement:
Challenges for the Novice Social Workers
20. Field Work Education in Social
Work in Italy
21. A Critical Review of Practice Education in England
22.
Hearing the Student Voice: An Evaluation of Students Experiences and
Learning in Fieldwork Education in University College Dublin, Ireland
23.
Fieldwork in Social Work Education in Slovenia: Needs, Challenges and
Possible Solutions
24. Prior to Embarking on First Fieldwork Education
Exposure: Preparing Social Work Students Through Five Experiential Learning
Activities
25. Reflexivity Development Demonstrated in Examples of Field
Placements of Social Work Students
26. Experiences on Social Work Field Work
Education in Romania
27. Reflexivity as a Pivotal Component of Fieldwork in
Social Work Education
28. Unconventional Practice Placements: Creativity,
Partnership and New Professional Opportunities in an Italian Experience of
Social Work Field Education
29. Construction and Evaluation of Knowledge in
Social Work from the Evidence of Professional Internships in Spain
30.
Character Strengths and Virtues for Competent Fieldwork Education:
Perspectives of Undergraduate Students from Two University Departments of
Social Work in Greece
31. Supervision about Culture and Culture in
Supervision: International Field Placement
32. Resilience Enhancement in
Social Work Field Education
33. Social Work Field Instruction in Turkey:
Challenges, Problems and Based Implications Part V: Social Work Field
Education under Covid-19
34. The Self-directed Practicum: An Innovative
Response to COVID-19 and a Crisis in Field Education
35. Covid-19 Pandemic: A
Threat or an Opportunity to Fieldwork Education in England?
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
Rajendra Baikady is U.R.C. Special Post-Doctoral Fellow and Senior Research Associate at the Department of Social Work and Community Development, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Sajid S.M. is a senior social work educator and Professor of Social Work at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
Varoshini Nadesan is Lecturer and Postgraduate Supervisor at the Department of Social Work and Community Development, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
M. Rezaul Islam is Professor in Social Work at the Institute of Social Welfare and Research, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.