1st Edition
Creative Approaches to Social Work Practice Learning
Introduction
Ch1 Let's start at the beginning - Claire Skilleter
Ch 2 Practice educating in a digital world - Anna Wright
Ch 3 Anti-Racist Social Work Practice Education - Garfield Hunt
Ch 4 The creative use of timelines: A trauma-sensitive approach for developing students’ critical analysis and reflexivity - Caroline Aldridge
Ch 5 Power - Heidi Dix & Aisha Howells
Ch 6 The Musician, The Stripper and The Boxing Day Flood: the use of stories in social work - Alison Taylor
Ch 7 Exploring professional curiosity - Nora Duckett
Ch 8 Getting Creative with Endings - Claire Skilleter
Conclusion
Biography
Heidi Dix has been a qualified social worker since 1997. She first worked as a social worker in an adult team for people with learning disabilities, before moving to work in Children and Family Services. Since 2007 she has worked as a manager within Suffolk’s Youth Offending Service where she has facilitated the development of evidence-informed practice. Heidi is also a Lecturer in Social Work at University Campus Suffolk. Her interests include single gender work, effective and participatory ways of engaging young people within the Youth Justice System, practice education, and exploring a relationship based approach within effective practice.
Aisha Howells is a Lecturer at the University of Suffolk. She leads a Masters-level Practice Education programme focussed on integrating creative approaches to learning. Because of her experience and commitment towards practice, she feels passionate about learning that equips practitioners and students in their busy professional lives and helps them to flourish.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which I read as a whole, but equally the chapters are stand alone, to be dipped into again and again, savoured and enjoyed. The book is accessible, down to earth, yet it is full of theory with interesting references to follow up. The book contains numerous exciting and creative tools and models to use with social work students on placement as well as in classroom settings. The book certainly “practises what it preaches”, and is beautifully crafted with pictures, poems and images. The book is expertly structured, taking the reader on a wonderful journey that will serve to enthuse and motivate practice educators, and encourages all of us to be creative in our pedagogical practices.
Dr Jo FinchProfessor in Post Graduate Research, University of Suffolk'Creative Approaches to Social Work Practice Learning’ does exactly what is says on the cover. The editors have brought together an interesting, creative and engaging text which explores the different stages of practice learning and how creativity can be built into students learning. The imagery and poems bring the text to life offering students and their practice educators new and exciting ways to deliver teaching and harness learning.
The nine chapters together offer readers information on trauma informed learning environments, tools for anti-racist practice, practice education in a digital world and the importance of professional curiosity, to mention a few. The book will be useful addition to the resources for practice education.
Dr Prospera Tedam (SFHEA)Associate Professor & Chair of Dept, United Arab Emirates University
