Field education and practice
AW GW
Debra Manning
Subject value of 2.0 (available for Gippsland students only in 1994) * Second semester (Gippsland) * Full year (Distance) * Prerequisites: GSC2303 * Corequisite: GSC2304
Students are placed in a welfare or community setting for sixty days to gain experiential learning and professional integration of their welfare theory and practice. The Social Welfare teaching section makes contact at least twice during placement to facilitate the learning process. Each student is supervised by a qualified field educator and is assigned a liaison person.
Assessment
Pre-placement assignment * Field education learning plan * Field educator report * Field education seminar/assignment * To obtain a pass in the subject students will be required to pass each piece of work. The subject will be assessed as pass grade only
Prescribed texts
AASWWE A handbook for field educators in social work and social welfare Charles Sturt University, 1991
Bogo M and Vayda E The Practice of field instruction in social work U Toronto P, 1987.