Before and After: Digital story telling with social work students in Northern Ireland

Abstract

This article is developed from a presentation given at the 12th International practice teaching conference in Oxford (2018). The authors share their experiences as academics and practice educators of using digital storytelling with social work students in Northern Ireland. Storytelling took place at two distinct points of the students’ learning journey before and after placement. Undergraduate social work students (n=40) in their first semester of year one teaching participated in classroom based digital storytelling with the first author. Placement students created digital stories at two key points during their placements, at the beginning (1st – 3rd week of placement) and at the end (16th – 18th week of placement). Several themes emerged including; self-evaluation and reflection, producing and receiving feedback and team work. This collaborative article offers a basis for practice development and professional discussions across disciplines on the use of digital storytelling with students studying for a professional qualification.

Sex‐based tuberculosis mortality in Newfoundland, 1900–1949: Implications for populations in transition

“…On the southern coast of the island, where the outports are difficult to reach even today unless by boat, women assumed agency of traveling nursing services for at least several decades in the early twentieth century. They would travel together over some distances by boat and stay for months at a time in a relatively organized and centralized manner (MacDermott, 1938). These efforts were so successful that a town on the southern coast claimed to have eliminated TB from their community by the late 1930s (MacDermott, 1938).…”

“…They would travel together over some distances by boat and stay for months at a time in a relatively organized and centralized manner (MacDermott, 1938). These efforts were so successful that a town on the southern coast claimed to have eliminated TB from their community by the late 1930s (MacDermott, 1938).…”

“…A summary table of the following research and the patterns observed can be found in Table 1. Early studies of radiographs in Wales exhibited TB disease in males twice as many times as in females (Cochrane et al, 1956), while others identified higher male TB mortality in English and Welsh cities and counties in 1911and 1938(McDonald, 1952. Critically, McDonald (1952) also identified that through a period of urbanization in England and Wales, overall TB mortality rates fell, yet in 1938 there were more pronounced age-based differences of TB mortality: younger females ($10-30 years) had notably higher TB mortality rates, while the pattern flipped for older males (30+ years).…”