Field Education

On Field Education - Kanako Okuda
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Field education offers students opportunities to integrate classroom knowledge into practice.

Source: Council on Social Work Education[CSWE] (2015).

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What is Field Education?

Where/when

the rubber meets the road

  • Designed
  • Supervised
  • Coordinated
  • Evaluated
CSWE (2005).

Students must come to understand in order to act, and they must act in order to serve.

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Shulman (2005).

What happens in field education?
Cumulative Learning
Getting to Know
Oneself
 

Learning to Practice in a Complex Context 

Field education experiences are designed to teach you both cognitive and affective processes. You are learning to practice while you develop your competencies as a beginning social worker.

Source: Bogo (2018).