Practice Education in Social Work: A Handbook for Practice Teachers, Assessors and Educators

by Janet Walker, Karin Crawford, Jonathan Parker

Overview

Written for social work practitioners involved in practice education, this overview of contemporary theory and knowledge helps to develop readers' skills as practice educators.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844451050
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/02/2008
Series:	Post-Qualifying Social Work Practice Series
Pages:	203
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Janet Walker is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Lincoln. She has a particular interest in the development of social care training, having managed local authority social services training prior to joining the University. Janet also has considerable experience of working in children's services as a social worker and a manager.

Karin Crawford is a Principal Teaching Fellow in the School of Health and Social Care and Director of Teaching and Learning for the Faculty of Health, Life and Social Sciences at the University of Lincoln.

Prof. Dr. Jonathan Parker is Professor of Society & Social Welfare at Bournemouth University, Emeritus Professor at University of Stavanger, Norway. He is Visiting Professor at the Tasik Chini Research Centre Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Sains Malaysia and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak and Doctoral programme team member at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. He was one of the founders and director of the Family Assessment and Support Unit, a placement agency attached to the University of Hull, and Head of Department of Social Work. He was Chair of the Association of Teachers in Social Work Education until 2005, Vice Chair of the UK higher education representative body, the Joint University Council for Social Work Education from 2005- 2010, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has published widely (over 200 scholarly papers and chapters and 37 books): on disadvantage, marginalization, violence, social work and welfare education. He is author of the best-selling book Social Work Practice (SAGE, 2021) and series editor for the highly successful Transforming Social Work Practice series (SAGE).

Table of Contents

Introduction
What is education in practice?
What is learning?
What is teaching?
What is assessment?
What is supervision?
Managing and developing practice learning experiences
What about me?
Summary

Editorial Reviews

"This is an excellent book...It is straight-forward, authoritative and a valuable resource both in education and practice "- Lecturer, University of Birmingham

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