Practice learning

Bartoli, Angie; Kennedy, Sue; Tedam, Prospera

doi:10.1921/jpts.v8i2.370

JPTS

2012

DOI: 10.1921/jpts.v8i2.370

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Practice learning

Angie Bartoli¹,

Sue Kennedy²,

Prospera Tedam³

Abstract: The nature of social work as a profession and the increasing demand for social workers to reflect the ethnic and cultural communities which they serve, means that social work programmes should seek to recruit and train students from many different backgrounds and ethnicities.This article will draw upon a wider evaluation, undertaken by three academics, all teaching on undergraduate and post qualifying modules on Social Work programmes. The broad aim of the evaluation was to develop an understanding of the Blac… Show more

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Using culturally relevant case studies to enhance students’ learning: a reflective analysis of the benefits and challenges for social work students and academics

Tedam

2012

Enhancing Learner Experience HE

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Internationalising the curriculum', 'multi-cultural education', 'culturally sensitive' education, and 'culturally competent teaching' are terms often used to describe teaching and learning which provides opportunities for learning about multiple and diverse contexts in which specific aspects of knowledge can be applied. In social work education, there is a growing call for an international outlook in teaching and practice learning to enhance the experiences of learners and also to prepare graduates for working in a global context. Using a case study approach, this article will explore the particular experiences of a student of Zimbabwean origin and the adoption of an African focussed example used to facilitate the particular student's learning. In particular, Bandura's Social Learning Theory (1977) will be discussed drawing upon themes and ideas from Africa with the aim of demystifying and making accessible social work theory to a diverse student group. The paper concludes that the use of culturally relevant case studies is an effective and beneficial strategy to engage a diverse student group and calls academics to make creative and innovative use of their skills, knowledge and expertise in the area of social work pedagogy.

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Using culturally relevant case studies to enhance students’ learning: a reflective analysis of the benefits and challenges for social work students and academics

Tedam

2012

Enhancing Learner Experience HE

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Finding the perfect match

Simpson¹,

Mathews²,

Crawford³

2014

The Journal of Practice Teaching and Learning

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Prior to the commencement of a practice placement, a social work student will usually be invited to meet formally with their practice educator, and sometimes other members of the team, in their work setting to discuss a range of issues about the forthcoming placement. In the absence of significant research about these pre-placement meetings, this small-scale study examined the understandings and experiences of social work students and practice educators regarding the role played by this meeting. Qualitative methods were employed to answer a range of questions related to how the pre-placement meeting was used to aid decision-making about the viability of the placement, participants' perceptions of the meeting, and concerns about the process that needed to be addressed. Findings indicate that there are a variety of ways in which the meeting is configured and organised, understood and used. The implications for the organisation of social work practice placements are discussed.

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What can social workers learn from African proverbs?

Tedam¹

2013

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There continues to be a call on social work education to incorporate diverse teaching and learning resources and strategies to meet the needs of its diverse learners. Proverbs tend to be well known metaphors, which are memorable and are passed on from one generation to the next, and exist in all cultures and in many languages. This paper presents an innovative and creative use of proverbs to facilitate this process, and provides students from different cultures the opportunity to understand and contextualise aspects of social work education and practice. The paper proposes the use of African proverbs to enhance learning for the growing numbers of African students of social work in England.It is hoped that the use of proverbs, which combine cultural heritage and literature as creative arts, will enable students to view the world of social work with an additional lens, making it relevant, interesting and meaningful. The proverbs used in this paper have been translated from various African languages into English.Writing from the perspective of a black female African social work academic, I believe it is important that black people are producers of knowledge and ideas in order to become a part of the writing of their own history.

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Practice learning

Cited by 6 publications

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Using culturally relevant case studies to enhance students’ learning: a reflective analysis of the benefits and challenges for social work students and academics

Using culturally relevant case studies to enhance students’ learning: a reflective analysis of the benefits and challenges for social work students and academics

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What can social workers learn from African proverbs?

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