ABSTRACT
Part Three is concerned with the role of the supervisor in field teaching. Student supervisors in any method of social work and practising in various settings will find that the basic principles and challenges of field teaching are quite universal. The supervisor in either a probation setting or a medical setting will need to teach his student how to present the social work contribution to other professionals, be they judges or doctors. The student learning about casework, groupwork, community work or residential work, will face the responsibilities of practice in a ‘live’ situation. This being so, Part Three has been organised into chapters dealing with the major areas of the student supervisor’s tasks relating to field work generally. (Residential workers, accustomed to comparing ‘field workers’ and ‘residential workers’, may find this nomenclature a little confusing, but ‘field work’ is used here in the educational terminology as compared to ‘academic work’.) Some instances where methods of practice may require differential application have been noted in the following pages and illustrations have been taken from the various methods. Although the principles and challenges may be universal, each supervisor will test them in relation to his own practice knowledge based on his own setting and method of practice.
