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SWIPE Conference, Sheffield UK, September 2006
SOCIAL WORK IN A CROSSNATIONAL CONTEXT INTERNATIONALISING THE PRACTICE LEARNING
CURRICULUM FOR SOCIAL WORKERS
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This presentation will cover:
1. The European Context : Socrates Erasmus: 2. SWIPE
– Who we are – Aims and Outcomes – How we worked together– Achievements
3. Globalisation and internationalising the Social Work Curriculum?
4. Evaluation and some questions
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1. Socrates - Erasmus
• Higher Education Institutions are supported, through the Socrates-Erasmus Action, to meet European Union social and economic objectives:– Social cohesion (Maastricht Treaty 1992) – Prepare citizens to be competitive in a
globalised economy (Lisbon Strategy).
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Socrates
• ‘The Socrates-Erasmus Action encourages co-operation between universities across Europe and supports mobility of students and staff in higher education, the development of joint programmes, courses and the development of thematic networks.’
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European collaboration
• Convergence of educational systems ‘Bologna Agreement’ and European Credit Transfer (ECTs) – modules and courses can be used across Europe.
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2. SWIPE
Six European universities
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OUTPUTS 2 year curriculum development project.
• Audit of practice learning in each country• A Common Module – framework for delivering
learning and teaching• Curriculum and menu of learning teaching
assessment materials - college and 'on site'• Bibliography• Dissemination – locally, nationally and
internationally • Web site http://shu.ac.uk/research/hsc/swipe• Conference.
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Funded Activities include:
• Staff time; each partner- tutor and practice educator (administrator, technicians)
• Regular local network meetings
• Four meetings of all partners
• Briefing Visits (2) to Brussels• Conference
• Translation costs
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• Tartu 3rd meeting
Vilnius 2nd meeting
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Module Focus: Globalisation
• The movement of people, capital and ideas and their social and economic impact: the implications for social work practice.– Policy context, international, national and
regional, how do these affect the people concerned?
– Social work responses, policy and practice (what works elsewhere and why?)
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• Learning from other social work traditions– and learning about being comparative
• Communicating across cultures at local and international level
• What does empowering practice mean in these contexts?
• Recognise and celebrate difference.
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The module is based on:
• Learning outcomes - at the end of the module successful students will be able to:– Reflect upon and understand personal, professional
and cultural values– Identify cross-national social problems– Make cross national comparisons (learning from
others)– Identify processes of cross national and cultural
communication– Engage in empowering practice with marginalised
groups.
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Different developments towards the module
• Oslo – cross cultural communication with students about to go on international practice– Using learning outcomes
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Lund-Sweden
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Utrecht and Vilnius
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The Audit
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This is how it can be used
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Is this enough?• I
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Is social work an international activity?
• Do we have a role as social workers in international affairs?
• Is there a community of ‘social work’ that can speak with one voice in international affairs?
• Do our differences and commonalities divide or unite us?
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Why Internationalise the curriculum?
• EU agenda• National requirements for social work?• Shaking ethnocentric/Eurocentric focus through
learning from other societies• Challenging parochial ideas of evidence• Critical engagement with personal and
professional assumptions (hegemony)• Global employment and global problems.
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How do we know it is a good thing?
Healy (1990) identifies four reasons to support international content:
• The educated person's perspective• The increasing level of global inter-dependence
and its effects on local social work practice• The use of international knowledge to deal with
domestic social work problems• The opportunity to contribute professional
experience to global issues.
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Evaluation
• Healy's reasons for action provide a template for evaluation which goes beyond student experience
• At present evaluation focuses on the educated person as the student
• There is a need to include the service user and the educator
• Does SWIPE go beyond creating an educated person?
• Do international initiatives make a difference and for whom? (Caragata and Sanchez 2002:236).
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Has SWIPE delivered?
• Different answers from different partners:– Module developed, piloted and incorporated in SW programmes– E-learning project (see poster presentation Gevorgianienė, V. Jakutienė, V. Hendriks, P, Kloppenburg, R.)– Raised the significance of globalisation within local and national
social work networks– Partners’ process of collaboration/comparative work mirroring
and guiding our understanding of student learning processes (academy and on-site)
– Combined academic and practice learning and produced shared learning materials- available on line.