To fail or not to fail: enhancing our understanding of reasons why social work students failed practice placements (2015–2019).
Social Work qualifying programmes teach students the necessary knowledge, skills, and values during a series of taught modules. Formal opportunities to integrate knowledge into practice are provided through practice placements in social work agencies. Each practice placement enables agency and/or ac...
| Publicado en: | Social Work Education Vol. 42; no. 4; pp. 459 - 476 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=163823013&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 163823013 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 02615479 36Q jtl: Social Work Education issn: 02615479 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2023 vid: 42 iid: 4 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 163823013 10.1080/02615479.2021.1973991 ppf: 459 ppct: 17 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.3MB tig: atl: To fail or not to fail: enhancing our understanding of reasons why social work students failed practice placements (2015–2019). aug: au: Roulston, Audrey Cleak, Helen Hayes, David McFadden, Paula OConnor, Erna Shore, Caroline affil: Social Work, School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland Department of Community & Clinical Health, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia Social Work, School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences, Ulster University, Magee Campusm, L/derry, Northern Ireland Social Work, School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland College Lecturer and Cirtl Teaching Fellow, School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland su: Ireland Social work students Social work education Social services Higher education Student teachers sug: subj: Social work students Social work education Social services Higher education Ireland Other Individual and Family Services Student teachers keyword: field education practice educator practice placement practice teacher professional conduct readiness to practice Social work social work placement social work student field education practice educator practice placement practice teacher professional conduct readiness to practice Social work social work placement social work student ab: Social Work qualifying programmes teach students the necessary knowledge, skills, and values during a series of taught modules. Formal opportunities to integrate knowledge into practice are provided through practice placements in social work agencies. Each practice placement enables agency and/or academic staff to gate-keep entry into the profession, through assessing student competence against agreed practice learning requirements, readiness to practice, and adherence to professional social work standards. This research study seeks to expand our understanding of the incidence of and reasons why students failed their practice placement whilst studying social work on the island of Ireland. On receipt of ethical approval, Practice Teacher reports and minutes of Practice Assessment Panels were used for data collection. Sixty-three students (19 male, 44 female; mean age 34 years) failed placement 2015–2019, with the majority (58.7%) failing first placement. Reasons for failing were categorised into knowledge, skills, values and personal reasons. The most common reasons for failing were a poor understanding of the professional social work role, poor time management, poor written work, the inability to follow direction, limited application of knowledge to practice, and poor professional conduct. Results suggest most students disclosed mitigating circumstances, which affected engagement and competence. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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