GSC3306

Field education and practice

Debra Manning

16 points
* First semester (Gippsland)
* Full-year (Distance)
* Prerequisites: GSC2303
* Corequisite: GSC3303

Objectives Upon completion of this subject students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the realities of welfare practice through participation in the ongoing work of an agency and also the ability to relate their practice experiences to theory from all the curriculum studies in the course.

Synopsis 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.

Assessment Pre-placement assignment
* Learning plan
* Field educator report
* Student placement report
* Field education 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 Bayda E The Practice of field instruction in social work U Toronto P, 1987