“…A primary outcome for all professions is that future practitioners would be able to integrate their formal knowledge base with fieldwork practice and embed it in this practice (Clapton, Cree, Allan, Edwards, Forbes, Irwin, MacGregor, Paterson, Brodie & Perry, 2008) The central concern is "to bridge the gap between theory and practice, and between classroom and the field", which "has preoccupied social work education since its ery beginning" (Clapton et al, 2008:334;Vaicekauskaite, Algenaite & Vaiciuliene, 2010;Wrenn & Wrenn, 2009). There are few attempts in social work to define what the "integration of theory and practice" entails (Clapton, Cree, Allan, Edwards, Forbes, Irwin, Paterson & Perry, 2006:650).…”