Studying for Your Social Work Degree
by Walker, HilaryFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-08-30
Publisher(s): Learning Matters
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Summary
This book is part of the Transforming Social Work Practice series written specifically to support students on social work degree courses.
Author Biography
Hilary Walker is a tutor in social work at Ruskin College Oxford. Her previous teaching experience was in social care and child care at Southwark College
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. ix |
| Beginning your social work education and training | p. 1 |
| Understanding and using concepts and principles: Values and social work | p. 15 |
| Relating theory to practice | p. 26 |
| Writing academically: Evaluation, developing arguments, avoiding pitfalls | p. 42 |
| Developing critical analysis and understanding | p. 58 |
| Applying college learning on your placement | p. 73 |
| Developing as a reflective learner and practitioner | p. 85 |
| Understanding and using social work research | p. 100 |
| Becoming a research-informed student | p. 116 |
| Becoming an independent and autonomous learner | p. 130 |
| Dealing with complexity: Using knowledge in practice | p. 141 |
| Pulling it all together: Complexity, synthesis and the dissertation | p. 154 |
| Conclusion | p. 171 |
| References | p. 173 |
| Index | p. 183 |
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