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Social workers as double agents: critical inquiry, social work education, and the youth question
- Authors:
- WILSON Tina E., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 39(1), 2020, pp.85-96.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Contemporary iterations of the youth question present social work with a generative challenge to imagine the education needs of youth as social work students, and at the same time, to imagine the intervention needs of youth as service users. This paper engages this challenge through an empirical case that confronted us with the researchers own preconceived understandings of young people and social work: a funded project to support the program evaluation capacity of a national network of youth centers in Canada. Working through three tensions that emerged in this work—(1) assumptions about youth and workers, (2) participation as a best-practice, and (3) how local data collection practices are networked to ambiguous, ongoing social processes—the researchers reflect project learning and youth studies literature together to explore the possibilities of ‘critical inquiry skills’ in social work education. As the researchers develop the concept here, critical inquiry skills are a means to encourage young people to see themselves as simultaneously within and outside of the categories and approaches they are taught and subjected to, and by extension, to invite and support newcomers to make the discipline and profession their own. (Edited publisher abstract)
The art of youth work
- Author:
- YOUNG Kerry
- Publisher:
- Russell House
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 118p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Lyme Regis
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
In its first edition it argued that youth work is centrally concerned with making relationships with young people, which support them in creating themselves and the values and meanings that shape their lives and guide their actions in the world. However, given the changes for youth work and the Youth Service since 1999, this edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to examine the implications for youth work purpose, principles and practice in the context of the broader social and political agenda for young people. Questioning whether 'transformed' youth work is still youth work, it reaffirms its own commitment to youth work as fundamentally an exercise in philosophy - not because young people are 'yobs' (anti-social hooligans, criminals), 'users' (drugs, alcohol, smoking), or 'victims' (socially excluded, disaffected, underachieving); but because they are people embarking on the human process of reconciling reason, passion and desire in ways that make sense to them.
Youth work process, product and practice: creating an authentic curriculum in work with young people
- Author:
- ORD Jon
- Publisher:
- Russell House
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 130p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Lyme Regis
Youth work cannot defend itself against erroneous and rival conceptions of practice unless it can sufficiently articulate its own. Through providing a framework for the creation of authentic curricula for youth work – this book offers one of the means by which individual workers, services and the profession as a whole can promote its unique educational practice. The author marshals evidence from youth work and draws on a wide, authoritative literature from philosophy, educational psychology, sociology, management and politics. Crucially, he presents and reviews material from recent local authority curriculum documents, in a way that has not been done before.
Young people, social workers and social work education: the role of digital skills
- Authors:
- PELAEZ Antonio Lopez, ERRO-GARCES Amaya, GOMEZ-CIRIANO Emilio Jose
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 39(6), 2020, pp.825-842.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This paper addresses a key issue in the development of youth-focused social work: the role of digital skills in the relationship between young people and social workers who work with these native digital users. To this end, we analysed data from the International Digital Economy and Society Index 2019 and Eurostat. Information from the sixth European Working Conditions Survey and a survey conducted by the Social Care Institute for Excellence and the British Association of Social Workers supported the empirical analysis. The main findings reveal a gap between the level of digital skills required in the labour market and the actual level of digital skills in both young people and social workers, despite efforts by both groups to improve their skills. Initiatives to foster digital skills are therefore recommended to bridge this digital divide. Lastly, it was concluded that both groups could act as mutual drivers of digital transformation. (Publisher abstract)
‘Speaking with them, not about them’: engaging undergraduate social work students in research with young people
- Authors:
- HEINSCH Milena, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 39(1), 2020, pp.111-125.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Young people’s involvement in social work education has been limited, despite increased awareness of the importance of young voices in professional education programs. Qualitative research methodologies offer mechanisms for including young people’s perspectives in social work education, and tools for social workers to better understand and respond to their concerns. This paper presents an Australian case study of engaging undergraduate social work students in research with secondary school students, to enhance their ability to systematically explore and address young people’s needs. Social work students’ reflections suggest this experience deepened their understandings of the social and relational challenges young people face during the high school years, improved their self-awareness of assumptions they hold about young people, and enhanced their confidence to identify and address young people’s needs in a meaningful way. The paper concludes with an evidence informed discussion about the lessons learned from this study, and the possible implications for integrating similar projects into social work courses in the future. (Publisher abstract)
Social work student attitudes toward contraception and the HPV vaccine
- Authors:
- FLAHERTY Chris, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 51(4), April 2012, pp.361-381.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This study investigated social work student attitudes toward the social work profession's perspective on certain aspects of reproductive health in the United States, namely contraception, emergency contraception, and the Human Papillomavirus vaccine. Participants included 116 Students at a large university in the south-eastern United States who were interviewed to determine whether their personal attitudes were in line with the National Association of Social Workers stance on reproductive health. Findings indicated that most supported public funding for family planning. Most also indicated a willingness to refer clients for general contraception. However, 72% of students disagreed that emergency contraception should be available for adolescents over the counter, even with parental consent. As levels of religious activity increased, acceptance of some of these aspects of reproductive health decreased. Implications for social work education are discussed.
Exploring young people's participation in interprofessional education, taking a children's rights approach
- Authors:
- BENNETT Alison, RACE Tracey
- Journal article citation:
- Learning in Health and Social Care, 7(4), December 2008, pp.219-226.
- Publisher:
- Blackwell
The Children, Young People and Families module was developed at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK in 2004. The module is jointly taught to community health and social work students with the active involvement of a Barnardo's Young People's Group. This module was developed in direct response to the challenges of the UK Every Child Matters policy agenda highlighting the importance of partnership and participation as the bedrock of effective practice in integrated children's services. For the writers, a commitment to the value base of social work means that it is not enough to lecture about child-centred practice, children's rights and the importance of participation, without modelling these principles in our practice as educators. This article outlines key aspects of the module and its delivery, including the authors' learning from partnership work with the Young People's Group. The work is evaluated drawing on student feedback and findings from an evaluation exercise carried out with the young people.
S/NVQ level 3: working with children and young people
- Author:
- NOLAN Yvonne
- Publisher:
- Heinemann
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 380p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
An NVQ is a qualification based on National Occupational Standards and often requiring “insider knowledge” to enable completion. NVQ’s are in 5 levels. They fit into the work place :Level 3 reached the standard of Technician, craft, skilled and supervisory occupations.
Addressing barriers to participation: service user involvement in social work training
- Author:
- TYLER Gina
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 25(4), June 2006, pp.385-392.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article describes how an individual service user, employed by a university, assembled a diverse group of people wanting to make a difference in social work education, who designed and delivered a module together. It discusses the often simple, but always effective barriers to participation, that hamper the involvement of service users and carers in processes that impact on their lives. It goes on to give a very positive example of the involvement of young care leavers - a lesser-heard voice - in social work teaching, and demonstrates that while involvement is always a good thing, good involvement invariably leads to improvement.
The potential of pedagogy/education for work in the children's sector in the UK
- Author:
- PETRIE Pat
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Europe, 8(3), 2001, pp.23-25.
- Publisher:
- Russell House
This article discusses the potential of pedogogy for social work in the children's sector in the UK. Provides details of a survey if out-of-school services in the European Union, work on children's services in Sweden, a project on homework in six European countries; the changing role of the school in Sweden, France and the USA and on-going work on the reorganisation of education in England, Scotland and Sweden.