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Technology-supported learning and teaching in social work in the UK - a critical overview of the past, present and possible futures
- Authors:
- WALDMAN Julia, RAFFERTY Jackie
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 27(6), September 2008, pp.581-591.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This paper uses the authors' extensive involvement in e-learning development activities in social care and social work education since the 1990s to explore trends and developments in uptake of technologies for learning and teaching. The paper utilises predictions of papers and reports written between five and ten years ago to critically reflect on past, present and possible future developments for technology use in the sector. The paper tracks milestones in the authors' experiences and reports on evaluative activity associated with later projects that offers some insights into technological preferences of educators, as well as highlighting wider issues in higher education and society impacting use of technologies by both staff and students. The paper's final section touches on a small selection of areas of technology development that may impact the sector and closes with a cautionary view of the ethical minefield posed by personal and professional use of Internet tools and sites.
Building e-learning capacity for the social work degree: a scoping study for the Department of Health E-Learning Steering Group
- Authors:
- RAFFERTY Jackie, WALDMAN Julia
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 73p.
- Place of publication:
- London
E-learning refers to the use of Internet technologies to deliver a broad array of solutions that enhance knowledge and performance. This scoping Study commissioned by the Department of Health elearning Steering Group was undertaken between December 2002 and March 2003. It is the first phase of an outline programme that has been formulated during the reform project to build elearning capacity in the social work education sector over a five-year period. The aims of the two-phased study were: to establish the current picture regarding elearning developments within social work higher education programmes; to establish what learning resources exist to support learning in the social work degree; to commission a modest set of elearning resource development activities; and to make recommendations to build elearning capacity to support the social work degree.
Social work and information and communication technologies: the tortoise and the hare?
- Author:
- RAFFERTY Jackie
- Journal article citation:
- New Technology in the Human Services, 11(2), 1998, pp.10-12.
- Publisher:
- Centre for Human Service Technology
Both social welfare and learning delivery are changing, but they do not mirror each other in terms of their progress. This article explores the impact of communication and information technologies on human service teaching and learning.
Evidence from virtual social work practice: implications for education
- Authors:
- WALDMAN Julia, RAFFERTY Jackie
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 3(3/4), 2006, pp.127-148.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The emergence of e-society impacts in sophisticated ways our day-to-day lives. In turn, this affects the provision of social work and social support to communities, including young people. This article draws on the findings of an evaluative study of an innovative virtual (on-line) social work service for children and young people in the UK run by the NSPCC, called "There4Me" and develops a critique of the nature of the communication skills required by social workers to operate in the world of computer mediated communication. The evaluation provides an opportunity to reflect on how e-provision may require fieldwork and academic staff to re-think the way communication and information literacy skills are taught to students. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Fit for virtual social work practice?
- Authors:
- RAFFERTY Jackie, WALDMAN Julia
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Technology in Human Services, 24(2/3), 2006, pp.1-22.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The paper considers the levels of coherence and dissonance between the education and training needs of social work practitioners working in a virtual environment and the focus of the requirements and learning and teaching approaches currently in use on social work programmes within education settings in England. The paper draws on a scoping study completed for the Department of Health exploring the way e-learning is used currently within social work education in England and identified a national collaboration model for developing and implementing the electronic resources that are required to support the social work learning prescribed by central government in the new social work degree. It also draws on an evaluation of the first UK open-access online information, advice and social work support service available to young people and run by the NSPCC. The paper argues a gap exists in the way information and communication skills are currently conceptualised to support the education and training of social workers. It appears that e-learning is often considered in relation to its functional advantages and that similarly ICT skills are considered in terms of computer program literacy. The much wider question of the development of competence for virtual practice and how e-learning may support this development require much greater consideration and application. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Building capacity to support the social work degree: a scoping study for the Department of Health elearning Steering Group
- Authors:
- RAFFERTY Jackie, WALDMAN Julia
- Publisher:
- University of Southampton. Social Policy and Social Work Learning and Teaching S
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 71p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Southampton
The new degree must produce competent practitioners. Students will have to undertake much of their learning in practice settings and demonstrate their competence in practice. Service providers, working in partnership with other key stakeholders, must deliver sufficient quantity and quality of practice learning opportunities in order to ensure that tomorrow's social workers are properly trained to do their job. This document looks at how e-learning will support this.
Human services and information technology: an international perspective
- Editors:
- STEYAERT Jan, COLOMBI David, RAFFERTY Jackie
- Publisher:
- Arena
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 272p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Examines the impact of information technology on social work and other helping professions over the last 10 years, comparing the experiences of 17 countries. Experts from each country describe local initiatives and developments under the following headings: information for citizens; vocational education and training; and provision of services.
Integrating research and teaching in social work: building a strong partnership
- Authors:
- TAYLOR Imogen, RAFFERTY Jackie
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 22(6), December 2003, pp.589-602.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
In recent years in social work we have increasingly come to address the issue of how to integrate research into practice. Implicit in the research and practice discourse is an assumption that there is an active and reciprocal relationship between research and teaching. In this paper, the authors question this assumption and after setting the political context, we review research into the relationship between discipline-based research and teaching. They then explore a proposal to redefine knowledge, research and teaching and examine the concept of scholarship. They go on to review some strategies we will be promoting in the UK Higher Education Funding Council's Learning and Teaching Network Support (ltsn) Social Policy and Social Work Subject Centre (SWAP) to support the development of positive linkages between teaching and discipline-based research, specifically on-line possibilities for supporting research mindedness among academics (and students and practitioners). Finally, the authors end by briefly discussing the equally important integration of pedagogic research into the practice of teaching.
Changing to learn: learning to change
- Author:
- RAFFERTY Jackie
- Journal article citation:
- Computers in Human Services, 15(2/3), 1998, pp.159-169.
- Publisher:
- Howarth Press
This article provides an overview of the use of 'communication and information technologies' (C&IT) in social work education in Britain. It outlines the development of the use of 'learning technologies' generally, and focuses specifically, on the impact of 'learning technology' in social work education and training. It looks at various factors influential in achieving, or blocking, cultural change in higher education, which may be of interest to social work educators in other countries.
Human services in the information age
- Editors:
- RAFFERTY Jackie, STEYAERT Jan, COLOMBI David
- Publisher:
- Haworth Press
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 460p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, NY
A collection of papers which look at innovation in human service practice and thinking, using information technology. The articles in this publication has also been published as the journal 'Computers in Human Services', volume 12, Numbers 1/2/3/4, 1995. Includes papers on social work education, disability issues, assessment and provision of services to clients and information systems at an organisational level.