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  • Title: Building Bridges Between School and Field: The Western Region Student Unit (Report)
  • Author : Women in Welfare Education
  • Release Date : January 01, 1996
  • Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 192 KB

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Introduction In the current Victorian climate of scarce field education opportunities, it is timely to reflect on the experience of the Western Region Student Unit which operated for more than a decade, from 1982 to 1993 in the Western suburbs of Melbourne. This paper provides an historical overview of the Unit, drawing on the experiences of the writers who were previous Unit Co-ordinators, and on feedback from field educators who taught students through the Unit. Its significance lies in the way it opened up a broad range of field education options, provided a vehicle for different social work schools to work collaboratively and built a strong relationship between schools and the field. Its approach may offer direction in how to increase field education opportunities in times of resource stringency, and to release university based social work staff to focus on other academic responsibilities such as research. Field education is an integral part of social work training, allowing students the opportunity to put into practice the knowledge they have learnt in the classroom as well as have new insights. Students complete two or three field placements (a total of 980 hours) across their course. Placements supervised by a qualified social worker often have a different focus: case work, group work, community development, research or policy. Each school is responsible for annually searching for placements and negotiating with interested agencies. One strategy used by some Australian and international social work schools to strengthen their fieldwork program has been the development of student units (Volard and Weeks 1991:134-5).


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