Funded Project
Real world social work: developing digital stories about practice placement experiences
| Project details | |
|---|---|
| Project contributors | Rachel Balen |
| Organisation | University of Huddersfield |
| Contact details | rachel.balen@hud.ac.uk |
| Disciplinary focus | Social work, practice learning |
| Start date | September 2010 |
Description
This project offers university social work staff and students the opportunity to gain practical experience and assess the potential of creating and assessing digital stories as a teaching and learning tool within social work education and training.
Real World Social Work will consist of a series of individual digital stories made by social work students after their first practice placement. (Digital stories take the form of ‘text’, usually spoken by the story maker, accompanied by still images and sometimes with music - ‘mini-films’ lasting between 2 and 4 minutes). These stories will have as their key focus the reality of moving from university to practice placement, from academic studies to the work situation, from theory to practice. The story-making itself will offer a useful reflective exercise for these students and the collected stories will form a learning resource for students about to enter placement and/or employment and for practice educators/mentors including those undertaking post-qualifying training.
