Digital poverty in social work education during COVID-19

Pentaris, Panagiotis; Hanna, Sue; North, Gemma

doi:10.18060/24859

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“…Most of the studies in this topic refer to social work education (e.g., Azman et al, 2020;Pentaris et al, 2020) and not to the restrictions on education that were widely signalled in the reports. Nevertheless, these are relevant to prepare upcoming social workers to intervene in a future marked by uncertainty.…”

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Unfolding Social Work Research to Address the COVID-19 Impact: A Text Mining literature Analysis

Casquilho-Martins

Mauritti

Moro

2022

The British Journal of Social Work

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This article aims to contribute to understanding the main social impacts of the pandemic caused by COVID-19 by highlighting the present and future challenges of social intervention and proposing a research agenda for social workers. Based on main indicators collected from international reports, we categorise the terms associated and analyse 284 Scopus articles that address social work issues in face of the COVID-19 through a text mining literature analysis. By applying topic modelling, we are able to identify relations within the body of knowledge between the main indicators. The results enable to highlight the current trends of research, contributing to leverage knowledge in social work in face of a complex and uncertain society. We find that most articles are focused on professional practice, as well as areas such as health, education and employment. In contrast, we argue that issues related to women or migrants have been less explored. These aspects could bring new perspectives in future research within the pandemic context.

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Section: Education (Topic 3)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Unfolding Social Work Research to Address the COVID-19 Impact: A Text Mining literature Analysis

Casquilho-Martins

Mauritti

Moro

2022

The British Journal of Social Work

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“…Students from Wuhan were especially affected with feelings of responsibility and shame, financial issues and concern for their families at home. COVID-19 accelerated financial disadvantage affecting Internet and computer access, and some students used to on-campus studies lacked technological skills (Pentaris et al, 2021). Although campuses were closed, special arrangements were made for Griffith students to borrow laptops or use computer laboratories if needed while physically distancing.…”

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Responding to COVID-19 in social work field education in Australia, New Zealand and the United States

Fronek¹,

Briggs

Rondon-Jackson

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International Social Work

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This descriptive article reports immediate responses to COVID-19 by social work field education faculty in four universities in Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Moving swiftly to online innovations, tele-supervision, teaching remote practice methods, and establishing alternative placements allowed students to meet required competencies while supporting students during the immediate crisis. Collaboration between field education faculty teams, professional bodies and agencies and clear communication with students and supervisors enabled all stakeholders to be open to flexible placement options. To conclude, COVID-19 brought opportunities to reflect on responses and explore new possibilities for field education in a post-COVID-19 world.

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“…Third, cognisant that all students do not have equal digital access, interest, experience, or capability [9], and at the recommendation of the industry board, simple browser based access to the Gartner Research Portal was arranged [10]. This resolved potential issues around digital poverty.…”

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Teaching Technology Foresight to Business and Management Students

McGowan¹

2022

INTED2022 Proceedings

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Predicting the future is an important, yet highly difficult management task. Disruptive technologies create new ways of working, shopping, and consuming, offering both risk and opportunity. Leading experts struggle to make accurate predictions about which technology will become ubiquitous, and which will face obscurity. However, 82% of jobs require digital skills, and while the current skillset is known, future requirements are unknown. Therefore, developing the ability of students to understand and capitalise on technology change is a problematic, but worthwhile endeavour.Technology foresight, sometimes called road-mapping is the process of looking at current trends and identifying how a new technology might impact a country, industry, market, or firm, should the future application and posited benefits be realised. This is problematic becausecontrary to other forms of forecasting in which ex post forecasts can be compared to eventsthe dynamic nature of technology means that comparison is extremely difficult. This paper reports on the design and delivery of a module called Trends in Technology, to third year undergraduate Marketing students at a UK University. Hitherto, there would appear not to be an academic model to support teaching technology foresight. Therefore, through synthesis of literature of technology foresight and pedagogy with regard to design thinking, a process was developed that could be taught. Design thinking was selected because it is particularly useful when a solution cannot be judged in absolute terms and where user or customer perceptions of the same solution may differ based on a wide range of heuristics, which may be unknown to the designer.Students reported that a design thinking approach to technology application enabled them to relate to it and how it may impact their everyday lives. This fostered engagement. Furthermore, the potential career impact was recognised, with, for example, assessment artefacts being used as evidence to support job applications and interviews. Contributions include presentation of a process for teaching technology foresight and a theoretical model that explains how technology foresight can be applied to marketing theory to create both firm and consumer value.

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Digital poverty in social work education during COVID-19

Cited by 6 publications

References 7 publications

Unfolding Social Work Research to Address the COVID-19 Impact: A Text Mining literature Analysis

Unfolding Social Work Research to Address the COVID-19 Impact: A Text Mining literature Analysis

Responding to COVID-19 in social work field education in Australia, New Zealand and the United States

Teaching Technology Foresight to Business and Management Students

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