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Denise Gammonley, PhDAssistant Professor
School of Social Work
Strategic Campus Partnerships to Build a Sustainable International Social Work Program
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• Goals:– Develop aging-rich field practicum sites– Recruit increasing numbers and
diversity of geriatric specialist MSW students
• Key Program Components– 1. University-Community Partnership– 2. Competency-Driven Field Education– 3. Integrated Field Education Across
Multiple Programs, Populations and Interventions
– 4. Expanded Field Instructor Role– 5. Focused Recruitment for Geriatric
Social Work
Who are the decision-makers?What are their priorities?
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Who are your major allies?
• Multiple roles and levels of involvement available for agencies & field instructors– Program support &
guidance– Hosting internships– Providing seminars
and colloquia– Funding student
stipends– ???
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Help
In the 21st century all professional social work is “international”.
• The global context of the profession.
• integrate social and economic justice content grounded in an understanding of distributive justice, human and civil rights, and the global interconnections of oppression
CSWE EPAS,Revised 2004
Share your values and priorities with prospective partners
• an increased understanding of the complexities and human costs and benefits of a globalized and interdependent world with rapidly changing social, technological, and economic systems. (Rotabi, Gammonley, Gamble & Weil, 2007)
What should we try to achieve in conducting international social work?
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Think globally, act locally…
• < 5 students per year– but great ones!
• Mainly generalist placements
• Assumption that placements with the elderly are only in nursing homes
• Available placements going unfilled because of lack of interested students
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One partnership effort: Social Work, Modern Languages, Film & Digital Media
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The Global Classroom Project
• Real time and asynchronous collaborative classroom engagement using interactive technologies.– Wiki’s– Webconferencing – WebCT
• Implementation challenges– Coordination with international partners.– Technology difficulties
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Engaging colleagues abroad
• Mentorship• Stipends• Recent program
graduates• Aging network• Undergraduates
considering entrance into Advanced Standing
• Brochures and media
Align your efforts with strategic initiatives
• Curriculum infusion• Social experiences to promote cross-cultural understanding.• Promote international programs and partnerships that advance or complement academic strengths
Be aware of partnership agreement guidelines
•General cooperation•Reciprocal student exchange• Study abroad site approval•Research•Faculty exchange & collaboration
University of Costa Rica—SEDE Pacifico in Puntarenas
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Engaging faculty at home: ISW as a faculty owned process
• Limit efforts to one or two key areas and carefully time initiatives.
• Use assessment as a strategy to heighten awareness.• Find roles for faculty without background or interest in
social work activities abroad.– Review data for curriculum analysis– Select important competencies for student learning
outcomes– Help set outcome-based goals for study abroad; faculty
exchange; external funding for international activities; field education abroad.
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Develop some useful products…
• Identify agency & • Get the grant• A glossary of international social work terminology to promote use of a common language about internationalization.Unifying frameworks for:• Study abroad• Directed Individual Study Abroad
• Web site with resources for students, researchers, and practitioners on Spanish language translation & interpretation resources, Hispanic health, local community groups representing targeted Hispanic immigrant populations in the service area.• Role play scenarios representing targeted immigrant groups.
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Some ideas for sustaining curriculum infusion efforts
• Get the grant
Adapted from: Hooyman, N.R. (2006). Achieving curricular and organizational change. Alexandria, VA: CSWE