ABSTRACT
The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work Education provides an authoritative overview of current understanding through coverage of key debates, exploring the state of play in particular social work education fields and reflecting on where the future might be taking us. The overall aim of the Handbook is to further develop pedagogic research and scholarship for social work education. Drawing on medical education as an exemplar, the contributions view social work education as a specialism and a field of expertise that counts in the same way as research programmes in more traditional areas of social work practice.
The chapters are concerned with the theory and practice of social work education at all levels; they are accessible, conceptually clear, research based where appropriate, critically reflective and ethically underpinned. The Handbook is organised into seven sections that reflect the proposed themes and sub-themes covering:
- Social work education in context: the western drivers
- Emerging and re-emerging social work education
- The scholarship of learning and teaching
- New insights into field education
- New directions in learning and teaching
- Future challenges in social work education
This handbook presents a contribution to the process of exchange and dialogue which is essential to global social work education. It brings together professional knowledge and lived experience, both universal and local, and will be an essential reference for social work educators, researchers, students and professionals.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |70 pages
Social work education in context
chapter |11 pages
‘Think Globally and Locally, Act Globally and Locally'
chapter |11 pages
Understanding and Assessing Competence
part |60 pages
Emerging and re-emerging social work education
part |64 pages
The scholarship of learning and teaching
part |68 pages
New insights into field education
chapter |11 pages
Aspirations and Realities in Delivering Field Education in a Developing Country Context
chapter |12 pages
Contesting Field Education in Social Work
part |78 pages
New directions in learning and teaching
part |64 pages
Future challenges for social work education