Assessment and decision making under the spotlight: The roles of student, practice teacher, tutor and university in four failed social work placements
McGovern, Marguerita
McGovern, Marguerita
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http://hdl.handle.net/10379/16517
https://doi.org/10.13025/20355
https://doi.org/10.13025/20355
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2021-01-24
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McGovern, Marguerita. (2021). Assessment and decision making under the spotlight: The roles of student, practice teacher, tutor and university in four failed social work placements. The Journal of Practice Teaching and Learning, 17(3), 64-81
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In social work education failing placement is a seismic event. There are many complex reasons why placements fail; the student fails the placement, the placement fails the student, the practice teacher fails the student, the student fails themselves and the university fails or upholds all. With a failed placement the spotlight falls on the student, the practice teacher, tutor and the university. There are professional standards, reputations, academic policies and procedures at stake, notwithstanding the protection of the service user as the central concern. This article presents four failed Masters in Social Work placement assessments, two case examples from practice failures and two from portfolio failures. Analyses and reports are shared from initial difficulties and procedural organization, through to the forensics of final decision. Consideration is also given to current research and a what happened next section is included.
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Whiting and Birch
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Ireland