Students' learning reflections when using works of fiction in social work education.
This article focuses on the analysis of 14 social work students' MA course assignments using Lucia Berlin's short story entitled 'Good and Bad'. Our focus is twofold: We ask 1) How do social work students describe their learning when analysing Berlin's short story; and 2) what kinds of skills do the...
| Publicado en: | Social Work Education Vol. 41; no. 8; pp. 1722 - 1735 |
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Dec2022
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