Professional education through the practicum process enables human service students to apply their skills and prepare themselves for making the transition to practice.In the Field, with its focus on life long learning, helps students to enhance those essential skills and to use them effectively in the formation of sustainable work practices.
The book examines the contemporary context in which learning takes place. It discusses opportunities for embedding action learning into professional practice, and builds on the action learning approach by analysing the learning process and its implications for particular groups and communities. It identifies important knowledge, strategies and skills essential for transforming learning into practice, and is well illustrated by relevant case studies, vignettes and exercises.
Part 1: The Context of Practice Learning.
1. Exploring the Context of Learning2. Learning Theories and Practice learning3. Mapping the Concept of Transformational Learing in Practice Settings4. Preparing for learning in a Practice SettingPart 2: The Learning Process.
5. Beginning the Processes of Learning in Context6. Guiding, Mentoring, Coaching and Supervising in an Organisational Environment7. Practice Learning in Groups8. Evaluation and Assessment: Facing the ChallengesPart 3: Applied Contexts of Practice.
9. Practice Learning Opportunities in the Context of Aged Care10. Practice Learning: Child Wellbeing and Child Protection11. Practice Learning in Community Mental Health12. Practice Learning: Refugees and Asylum Seekers13. About the Aboriginal Experience: From Learning to Practice
Roslyn Giles is Director of Field Education and Senior Lecturer in Social work and Policy Studies at the University of Sydney. Her teaching and research interests include standards for professional practice; social inequality in health, experience based learning, building capacity and transformative processes. Jude Irwin is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney. Her teaching and research interests include social work practice, social policy, gendered violence, professional practice supervision, and practice learning in field education. Denise Lynch is a lecturer in Social Work at the University of Sydney. Her teaching and research interests include child protection, refugee children and field education. Fran Waugh is Senior Lecturer and Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning), Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney. Her teaching and research interests include violence in families and practice learning.
