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Modern social work practice: teaching and learning in practice settings
- Authors:
- DOEL Mark, SHARDLOW Steven M.
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 302p., ill. bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
This book designed to provide readers with an opportunity to engage with key aspects of current social work practice. It also provides a digest of the significant literature. Each chapter is introduced with an activity or exercise designed to aid student learning in discrete aspects of practice, building up to a complete curriculum for practice learning.
Learning to practice social work: international approaches
- Editors:
- SHARDLOW Steven M., DOEL Mark
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 264p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at current issues in social work practice and teaching in different countries around the world. Aimed at students, practitioners and lecturers, it draws together the experience of experts working in a range of social work contexts under different systems and in different cultures and shows how diverse approaches can inform and improve each other. The contributors highlight the links and collaboration between college based and practice based learning, and discuss the diversity of the settings in which social work takes place. Demonstrates the existence of universal issues and opportunities as well as detailing differences in practice teaching and learning.
Transfer of learning across nation states:developing culturally sensitive methods of social work education
- Authors:
- HORWATH Jan, SHARDLOW Steven M.
- Journal article citation:
- European Journal of Social Work, 4(1), March 2001, pp.29-38.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Sharing of ideas about good practice and values in social work education and practice across Europe is a fast developing process. As the emergent post-communist states of Eastern and Central Europe, have developed new economic systems, participatory politics and new social infrastructures, they have sought the advice of Western states on the development of social work practice and education. This paper considers key issues involved in the transfer of ideas from West to East for both partners. The focus is on the development of social work education, and draws on experiences of collaboration with colleagues in Ukraine. Consideration is given to collaboration and detailed exploration of aspects of teaching and learning across cultures as a contribution to the development of social quality. This paper is relevant not only to the transfer of teaching across different national boundaries, but there are also messages for social work educators within nation states, who provide social work education to culturally diverse populations.
Attitudes toward lesbians and gay men among Hong Kong Chinese social work students
- Authors:
- KWOK Diana K., WU Joseph, SHARDLOW Steven M.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Education, 49(2), 2013, pp.337-352.
- Publisher:
- Council on Social Work Education
There is a dearth of research on social work students’ attitudes toward lesbians and gays in East Asian countries where intolerance toward nonheterosexuality has been documented. This article presents findings from the first study in Hong Kong using a Chinese version of Herek's Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men Scale (ATLG) to measure attitudes toward lesbian and gay men of 462 Chinese social work students. We found that students’ attitudes were generally favorable toward lesbians and gay men. Students with Christian beliefs tended to hold negative attitudes, though exposure to sexual diversity training was found to be significantly associated with favorable attitudes. The authors discuss implications of social work education in Hong Kong with reference to its unique cultural context. (Publisher abstract)
Drawing back the curtain: managing learning opportunities across two linguistic worlds, when the quality of interpretation is poor
- Authors:
- HORWATH Jan, SHARDLOW Steven M.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 23(4), June 2004, pp.253-264.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The authors believe trans-national social work education should be based on collaborative learning. Trans-national educational projects are frequently dependent on communication using interpreters. Effective interpretation is crucial if an exchange of knowledge, values and skills is to occur within a learning situation. In a recent article, the authors explored some of the issues and dilemmas faced by social work educators when working through interpreters in the context of trans-national social work education. They concluded with a code of practice for interpretation. This code of practice was predicated upon the assumption that the quality of interpretation was good. However, how should social work educators respond when the quality of interpretation is weak? This article considers ways in which poor interpretation impedes an exchange of ideas between educators and learners. The authors analyse the issues for both educator and learner, using Kolb's model of learning. The second part of the paper explores ways in which these issues can be addressed, in order to first enable collaborative learning to take place and second to promote a climate of learning that empowers learners and models anti-oppressive practice.
Key themes in European social work: theory, practice, perspectives
- Editors:
- ADAMS Adrian, ERATH Peter, SHARDLOW Steven M.
- Publisher:
- Russell House
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 227p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Lyme Regis
A selection of papers which examine the relationships that arise between social policy, theory, research, ethics, law, market forces, non-governmental enterprises, social alarm and reassurance, education and training, and individual career choices. Seeks to overcome the dichotomies that arise within welfare regimes, for example between social structure and human agency, collective solidarity and individual liberty, subjectivity and objectivity, morality and instrumentalism. Contrasts and counterbalances the Anglo-American positivist model of welfare, that privileges individualism and is legitimated by reference to criteria of economy and effectiveness, with the humanist and hermeneutic tradition that privileges solidarity and critical reflection. Contents include: comparing social work from a European perspective; the role of social policy in social work; ethical aspects of social work; the increasing importance of law to social work practice; social work and the third sector; social alarm and public reassurance; social work education and training; social work as a career.