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The journey to becoming a qualitative social work researcher: seven mile-markers Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Dafna Tener
This paper deals with the meaningful relationships between qualitative research and social work. It seeks to explore seven mile-markers through which one can develop the identity of a qualitative s...
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Integrating the Grand Challenges for social work into an undergraduate capstone course Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Dawn Apgar, Lori Zerrusen
Over the last decade, social work has focused on identifying widespread societal problems that should drive research, teaching, and practice in the coming years. There are very few scholarly articl...
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Political ideology and social work Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Pretty Olan Oktavia Sihite, Haryanto, Harmaen, La Ode Muhamad Iqbal, Syaipul Hari Baharuddin
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Challenges of social work field practicum and professionalization in Bangladesh Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Md. Ismail Hossain, Muhammad Shariful Islam, Isahaque Ali, Azlinda Azman
Social work education and practices began in Bangladesh more than half a century ago. Yet, it has not attained the professional status demanded by the country. This paper aims to examine the challe...
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Social work education in South Korea in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Serim Lee, JongSerl Chun
Social work education in South Korea has significantly advanced since 1947. However, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and COVID-19 have significantly altered contemporary Korean social work educati...
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Spatial issues in social work education in Chile: curriculum analysis of universities and professional institutes Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Felipe Saravia-Cortés, Víctor Orellana-Bravo, Francisca Díaz, María Luisa Carrasco
In response to the growing use of spatial concepts in social work, this article addresses their incorporation in the curriculum of undergraduate programmes and the differences among diverse types o...
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Immersive virtual environments as a tool to improve confidence and role expectancy in prospective social work students: a proof-of-concept study Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Paul Best, Gerry Marshall, Jessica Cushnan, Paul McCafferty, Nichola Booth
This paper explores the use of immersive technology in social work education, specifically through a virtual simulation called ‘Branch-VR’ designed for young people taking part in a Widening Partic...
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Digital competence in social work education: readiness for practice Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Siri Fjeldheim, Lise C. Kleppe, Edda Stang, Blanka Støren-Vaczy
In line with the digital turn in service provision, social work students should acquire relevant knowledge and skills, preparing them for work within digitalized welfare services. In Norway, these ...
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Barriers to and enablers for the success of postgraduate students in social work Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Lizane Wilson, Jessica Pool
All over the world, higher education institutions (HEIs) are concerned about low enrollment, delayed completion rates, non-completion, and the subsequent smaller number of graduates of Master’s and...
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Addressing gun violence through social work education Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Alicia Hawley-Bernardez, Joy Patton, Carol Meza, Greg Gibbons
Gun violence is a critical public health issue in the United States, with firearms involved in over 48,000 deaths in 2021. However, social workers receive limited training to address the risks and ...
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Teaching note: assessing social work students on placement: a model for professional competence Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Denise MacDermott
This teaching note describes how the author (a practice teacher and university lecturer) retrospectively considered and applied the work of Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger; with a specific focus on si...
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Attitude and readiness of utilizing virtual reality simulations in interprofessional education to facilitate prompt and safe hospital discharges in England Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Sharif Haider, Ann Flynn, J. E. Simpson
It can be challenging in England to provide interprofessional education (IPE) in hospitals due to practitioners’ availability, high workload, difficulty to backfill, and training costs. Furthermore...
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The role of formal supportive relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for social work education Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Yafit Sulimani-Aidan
The COVID-19 pandemic and its implications may provide a unique lens through which to explore formal relationships and their role in the lives of at-risk young adults. As such, based on the framewo...
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Developing your communication skills in social work (Second Edition) Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-03-21 D. Mohanambigai, N. Rajavel
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Being, knowing and doing: aligning ontology, epistemology, and axiology to develop an account of social work as practice Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Mark Smith, Trish McCulloch, Maura Daly
This article takes as its starting point reflections from social work academics at a Scottish university around persistent tensions between the nature of social work practice and the ways in which ...
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Role-playing as a method for the improvement of ethical competences in social work: a case study Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-03-21 M. José Gómez Poyato, Raquel Lozano, Marta Mira-Aladrén, Diana Valero
Role-playing is an active learning methodology that is increasingly playing a central role in the educational process: in our case, in the subject of Ethics Applied to Social Work. We present resea...
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Social work students in Aotearoa New Zealand: the impacts of financial hardship on mental and social wellbeing Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Allen Bartley, Liz Beddoe, Ladan Hashemi, Mehdi Rahimi, Sophia de Fossard
In Aotearoa New Zealand, approximately 3000 people are enrolled in a recognized social work education programme at any one time. A collaboration between researchers at two social work education pro...
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Practicing up: Teaching social workers how to influence authority figures Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Brenda D. Smith, Heather Headley Resendez
Social workers often practice in challenging organizational contexts that hinder the ability to uphold social work values and ethics and empower clients. This article introduces the concept of ‘pra...
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Mental health and biomedical neoliberalism: can creativity make space for social justice? Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Emma Tseris, Sacha Jamieson
In this article, we introduce a creative assessment task developed for postgraduate social work students studying critical perspectives on mental health. We discuss how moving beyond the constraint...
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“This is about heart knowledge”: the disconnect between anti-racist knowledge and practice among white students in social work education Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Justin E. Lerner, Angie Kim
Our study conducted 11 focus groups with 41 students enrolled in a school of social work at a large public university about their experiences with anti-racism social work education. White students ...
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MSW program directors in the United States: a scoping survey of responsibilities, preparation, and support Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Susan Mapp, Needha Boutté-Queen
A survey of Master of Social Work (MSW) program directors in the United States investigated their current role including their environment, tasks and preparation, and support. Most respondents were...
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Creative critical reflection through poetry and prose Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Beth Moran
Artefacts considered in this paper include poetry and prose from my previous doctoral research with social work students; exploring how they experience, express, and manage the emotional content of...
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Saying ‘goodbye’ to the journal Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Jane Fenton
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Vol. 43, No. 2, 2024)
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Tackling poverty and social exclusion: promoting social justice in social work Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Eva Precilia Lukman, Haryanto, Grace Roselina Situmorang, Dekriati Ate, Debi S Fuadi
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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“I just want them to respect what I am” - LGBTQ+ social work students’ perceptions of their Department microclimate Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Vasileia Papadaki, Vasileianna Kantourou, Vasiliki Karaligka
This qualitative study using explores LGBTQ+ Greek social work students’ perceptions of the microclimate in the Department where they study. Twenty-one students who differed in sexual orientation, ...
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Empowering first-year social work students: improving student success and retention with a discipline-specific tutor to provide feedforward on assessments Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Sarah Teakel, Kelly Linden, Erin Rose Bradshaw
There is an increasing demand for university level qualifications to service the evolving social work workforce in Australia. With many students entering university from non-traditional pathways, i...
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A theoretical framework for understanding the importance of implementing simulation in social work education Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Gerard Jefferies, Mim Fox, Laura Dodds, Cindy Davis
Social work engages in many complex and emotionally charged environments that challenge the educational requirements of students. The profession draws on various theories, including sociology, psyc...
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Exploring educators’ and students’ perspectives on harnessing indigenous knowledge and practices in social work education modules development in Nigerian universities Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Patricia Uju Agbawodikeizu, Prince Ekoh, Samuel Onuh, Chinyere Onalu
Social work education modules are contested to be dominated by Western pedagogy and perspectives. Recent discourses on indigenizing social work education in Africa focused on promoting social work ...
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I want my daddy Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Adeshayo Are
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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EUROPEAN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AND PRACTICE SERIES Publishing endeavour of the EASSW and publishing house Springer Laging, M. & Žganec, N. eds. (2021): Social Work Education in Europe. Traditions and Transformations, Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, ISBN 978-3-030-69700-6, 231 p. Bundschuh, S., Freitas, M.J., Palacin Bartroli, C. & Žganec, N. eds. (2021): Ambivalences of Inclusion in Society and Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Nino Žganec
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The affective and spatiotemporal benefits of podcasting for teaching social policy practice: learning to ‘love’ social policy Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Ben Arnold Lohmeyer
Social policy, or policy practice, in social work education suffers from an image problem among students. Internationally, students prefer direct practice and find policy practice intimidating and ...
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Development of social worker critical reflexivity through integration of lived experience into further education Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Alice Gojová, Eliška Černá, Markéta Čtvrtečková, Lukáš Roman
Social work education is not completed by graduation from school, and further education is becoming increasingly important. It has been co-opted by neoliberal concepts, even though it should help t...
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Meeting the training needs of a child-protection workforce: perspectives on professional certificates in understanding, assessing, and responding to childhood trauma Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Martine Hawkes, Amanda Paton, Nada Ibrahim
There is a well-established need to ensure that practitioners who work directly with children and young people impacted by abuse are well-equipped to support them. This need is coupled with a lack ...
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Who is the ‘I’? An exploration of social work professional written discourse and implications for social work education Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Theresa Lillis, Maria Leedham
This paper brings together two areas of importance to social work education, professional identity and professional writing; identity is often viewed as central to social work practice and educatio...
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Creating community in online critical social work courses Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Rose C. B. Singh, Renée Nichole Ferguson
This piece shares a practical participation assignment that emphasizes community-building, activism, collective learning, and contributions. Grounded in critical and inclusive pedagogical approache...
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Social work supervision in the disability field: a systematic literature review Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Ayelet Gur, Michal Klein
This study aims to systematically review the landscape of social work supervision within the disability field, prompted by the rising global prevalence of individuals with disabilities and the impe...
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Managerial aspects in macro social work education: comparative analysis between MSW macro programs and nonprofit management education Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Sung-Ju Kim, Bok Gyo Jeong, Roseanne Mirabella
The aim of this study is to evaluate the scope of management education within macro social work programs in the U.S. and to contrast this with similar nonprofit management education programs across...
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Teaching self-care: understanding the learned and lived self-care experiences of social work students Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Jenny Lamb, Rhonda Peterson Dealey
Professional self-care in social work is regarded as paramount to ethical and competent practice. However, the absence of an agreed upon operationalization of self-care leaves social work educators...
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Asian social work: professional work in national contexts Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Azinuddin Ikram Hakim, Lukman Hakim, Anggerka Harum Oktaviana
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Social work educators and student wellness needs Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Katherine M. McCarthy, Nina C. Johnson, David C. Kondrat
When students struggle with inconsistent food or housing, social distress, or mental health challenges, this can directly impede their learning. Social Work educators in the United States were surv...
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CALM: caring action leadership mindfulness: a college counseling practice-based education model Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Fredi Giesler, Mary R. Weeden, Sheryl Yee, Megan Ostler, Rachel Brown
College is a phase in life where many young people experience freedom to make decisions as they have never had before. They are living in a community where their education, work, professional, soci...
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Effect of case-based teaching videos on e-learning platforms on the self-regulated learning outcomes of students Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Su-Fen Cheng, Chi-Wei Cheng, Chieh-Yu Hung, Pei-Hua Chang
This study focused on the implementation of case-based teaching videos on e-learning platform and the effect of these videos on the self-regulated learning outcomes of students in a community work ...
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The everyday civic engagement of social work students Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Carolien Terhorst, Els Rommes, Kathrine van den Bogert, Lisbeth Verharen
Processes like globalization and digitalization are changing the way people civically engage, but policies and organizations that aim to cultivate or promote civic engagement have not yet acknowled...
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The In-class experience of social work students based on their political ideology Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-01-24 C.J. Sorenson, Tiffanie Jones, Rachel Casey
The purpose of this quantitative study was to identify the relationship between the political ideology of social work students and their experience in social work classrooms. BSW and MSW students (...
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Pedagogical approaches for social justice and diversity in Canadian social work education Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Eunjung Lee, Toula Kourgiantakis, Ran Hu
This paper aims to explore social justice and diversity education in Canadian schools of social work. Using an online survey, we invited faculty members to share their teaching experiences in socia...
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Social work undergraduate curriculum and the readiness of the students to practice in the field of mental health Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Chinyere Onalu, Prince Chiagozie Ekoh
With the growing economic and sociopolitical challenges, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic and the increasing use of social media, Nigeria is recording a continuous increase in mental health probl...
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Building professional identity during social work education: the role of reflective writing as a tool Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Siv-Britt Björktomta, Pia Tham
The aim of this study was to increase knowledge about how the process of building a professional identity can be incorporated into social work education at a Swedish university. In the subject call...
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Students-teaching-students: an instructional method for increasing student engagement in undergraduate social work courses Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Ethan Engelhardt, Andy Reynolds, Kendra Eubank, David Royse
Engagement in social work education can be a critical factor in the success and retention of information for students. Similarly, an engaged classroom provides a better experience for faculty and s...
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Co-creating experiences through the use of arts in social work education Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Keiron Hatton, Tracey Maegusuku-Hewett, Jo Redcliffe
The inclusion of citizens in social work education was initiated over 30 years ago and continues to travel a ‘long and winding road’. Social work education in the UK faces increasing pressure from ...
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Relational pedagogy in social care education: a model for relational justice Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Niall Hanlon
Driven by a statutory obligation to protect the public, within the context of historical failings and institutional abuse, a process of professional regulation is transforming the profession of Soc...
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Kazakh cultural values and ethical choice of social work students Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Aigul Mustafina, Baurzhan Mustafin
The recognition of cultural relativism in social work ethics has grown. Kazakhstan’s society is largely collectivist and interdependent with a predominantly Muslim population and traditional values...
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Using the concept of epistemic injustice and cultural humility for understanding why and how social work curricular might be decolonized Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Ann Anka
The notion of decolonizing the curriculum is currently gaining momentum in Higher Education Institutions (HEI) across the world and in the United Kingdom (UK). Fuelled by the movements #RhodesMustF...
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Online simulations as a tool of integrative pedagogy in learning social work practice skills Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Marja-Leena Hyvärinen, Eine Pakarinen, Taru Kekoni
This study describes and evaluates online simulations of social work practice skills training, which involved social worker-client interaction exercises that students performed on Zoom with trained...
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Community resilience building in disadvantaged neighbourhoods (DN): action learning and political work Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Mariusz Granosik
Old, often neglected downtown neighborhoods are usually the salt of the city, the center of its original culture, and the area of an authentic community anchored in traditional values as: an ethos ...
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Transformational learning and agency for professional identity development: first-year social work student retention and wellbeing Social Work Education Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Dyann Ross, Trevor G. Gates, Bindi Bennett, Kerry Greene
Challenges relating to first-year student retention and learning outcomes are recognized as a multi-faceted issue in the tertiary education sector across many professional programs, including socia...
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The underdeveloped role of social work in schools: a localised perspective within a Peri-Urban setting Social Work Education Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Eva Ioannou, Jioji Ravulo, Nandini Ray
The role of social work in schools remains underdeveloped as there appears to be a lack of nuanced understanding of social work practice in the education system. In providing a localized perspectiv...
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Beyond a commitment of teaching critical reflection: a scoping review of social work education literature Social Work Education Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Katherine Reid, Elise Woodman, Willow Trost, Kian Prammar
There has been a commitment to critical reflection research, theory, education, and practice development in social work in the last 15 years, yet less is known about how we effectively teach and as...
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Social justice theory and practice for social work critical and philosophical perspectives Social Work Education Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Monalisa Das
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Developments and expansion in 2023 and looking forward to 2024. Social Work Education Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Jane Fenton, Richard Ingram
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Vol. 42, No. 8, 2023)
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“Its not a book; it’s a Bok”: social work students’ experience of using creative journaling practices as a pedagogical tool to develop transformative learning during the COVID-19 pandemic Social Work Education Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Michael Wallengren-Lynch, Beth Archer-Kuhn, Tara Earls Larrison, Esther Mercado Garcia, Lisa Chen Henglien, Nishi Mitra, Einav Segev, Marta Blanco Carrasco
This paper reports on an international research project designed to explore the relevance and impact of creative journaling as a pedagogical tool during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project involved ...