Critical Learning for Social Work Students

by Sue Jones

Overview

This book is part of the highly-successfully Transforming Social Work Practice series and is written specifically to support students on the Social Work Degree. It's full of practical tips, case studies, activities and opportunities for students to critically reflect and engage.

Social work agencies want newly-qualified workers who can practice as highly motivated and self-flourishing professionals. To get to this stage, social work degree students need to be critical, analytical and evaluative in their thinking, reading and writing. And while lecturers may highlight this need when marking assignments, there is limited space to explore these topics within an already tight social work curriculum. This concise guide helps to tackle this problem and goes to the heart of these essential skills with clarity and sincerity. Contents include:

Critical thinking

Understanding self-reflection

Asking critical questions

Scrutinising values and beliefs

By using practical examples and interactive features Critical Learning for Social Work Students will help guide you through your degree and on to becoming a fully-developed and critical practitioner. It covers key areas of critical thinking such as developing a clear and logical argument as well as the application of self-evaluation and understanding the 'professional self'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781446268162
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/14/2017
Series:	Students of Jump
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Sue Jones holds academic and professional qualifications in social work, teaching and sign language. She uses her 33 years of teaching experience in the UK and Eastern Europe, her research activities in critical thinking and her contact with practice social work agencies to inform her understanding of student critical thinking abilities. She currently teaches and tutors on social work courses at BA and MA levels at Manchester Metropolitan University and contributes to continual professional development collaborative projects with Lithuanian Universities in special education, management and economics. She is the English editor for a Lithuanian scientific journal and has received a Gold Award in recognition of long service collaboration with Siauliai University, Lithuania.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vi

Introduction 1

1 Developing critical questions 6

2 Developing critical reading 33

3 Developing critical writing 56

4 Developing critical reasoning 81

5 Developing as a critical practitioner 96

Conclusion 123

Critical Learning Log 124

Glossary 128

References 133

Index 135

Editorial Reviews

"A brilliant book…energetic, enlightening and inspiring "- Lecturer, University of Northampton

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