Creative Approaches to Social Work Practice Learning

This guide provides practice educators with the skills and knowledge to be more creative in their teaching, supervision, and assessment of students, enabling them to cultivate a creative approach to learning and contribute to their knowledge-base.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 07 April 2022
Publisher: Critical Publishing Ltd

Practice educators, as social workers, are accustomed to being creative and innovative in their demanding roles in practice. However, they often struggle to find the time to integrate this creativity into the teaching and learning with students. To support a student's ability to develop their critical thinking, practice educators need to possess and demonstrate a range of different skills and knowledge around models and strategies of teaching, supervision, and assessment.

This concise guide enables practice educators to be more creative in the teaching, supervision, and assessment of students. Containing stand-alone but inter-linked chapters that each cover an innovative or creative approach in practice education, this book provides accessible material and practice guidance to enable practice educators to cultivate a creative approach to learning. This includes contemporary and diverse ideas around the teaching, supervision, and assessment of social work students who are undertaking their practice learning placements.

Each chapter is written by a qualified practice educator, enabling them to draw upon their experiences of effectively supporting the development of students and the building of a learning relationship. The book bridges theory and practice, providing a straightforward and useful resource for practice educators to draw upon, thus supporting their research-mindedness to inform their practice and contribute to their knowledge-base.

Both of which are indicative skills within their expert specialist roles. In short, the book provides a range of creative approaches, demonstrates their application in practice, and helps to build a "creative mindset" among practice educators. This mindset is essential for developing innovative and effective teaching, supervision, and assessment strategies that can support the learning and development of social work students.

By incorporating these creative approaches into their practice, practice educators can create a more engaging and effective learning environment for their students, which in turn can lead to better outcomes in their practice placements and beyond.

Weight: 229g
Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781915080011