ABSTRACT
The content of a curriculum is based on what a social work student needs to learn in order to do the job of social work. This is often viewed as a trinity of knowledge, values and skills, of which some will be general to all social workers, and some might be considered specialist. The curriculum should provide an integration of class-based learning and agency-based learning; as a practice teacher, their prime concern is the learning which takes place in the agency. In the field of practice learning, some aspects of a curriculum may be difficult to control, such as the timing of learning opportunities; the careful mix of learning from planned, timed simulations and learning from live activities is part of the art, science and technology of practice teaching. One way to construct a practice curriculum is to design a comprehensive blueprint of social work practice.
