Abstract

This article aims to discuss social work students’ choices of issues/needs for social policy practice and how those choices of policy issues can be employed to refine social policy education and training so as to better engage social work students and practitioners in policy practice. By employing reflective and secondary data analysis methods, the article looks at social policy practice assessments of social work students and identifies the chosen social issues/needs for setting the agenda, advocacy and policy analysis. The analysis shows a wide range of social issues/needs chosen by students for policy practice, without any particular pattern, and offers insights on how to design student-centred learning for policy practice assessments. It argues for the expansion of the knowledge and skills-base of the social work profession to create a balance between micro and macro practice. The reflective discussion suggests the implications for innovative ways of designing curriculum for macro social work education and preparing students for policy practice.

中文翻译：

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社会工作学生对社会政策实践的偏爱：对宏观实践教育的启示

摘要

本文旨在讨论社会工作学生对社会政策实践的问题/需求的选择，以及如何利用政策问题的这些选择来完善社会政策教育和培训，以便更好地让社会工作学生和实践者参与政策实践。通过采用反思性和辅助数据分析方法，本文着眼于对社会工作学生的社会政策实践评估，并确定了用于设定议程，倡导和政策分析的社会问题/需求。分析显示了学生为政策实践选择的各种社会问题/需求，没有任何特定的模式，并提供了有关如何设计以学生为中心的学习以进行政策实践评估的见识。它主张扩大社会工作专业的知识和技能基础，以在微观和宏观实践之间取得平衡。反思性的讨论提出了创新的方法，这些方法对于设计用于宏观社会工作教育的课程以及为学生准备政策实践提供了创新的方式。