Teaching social education with and through groups

ABSTRACT

This article presents a teaching model applied in the training of social educators under the principles of experiential learning and group work. The model is the result of an innovative teaching experience that took place with students of a bachelor’s degree program in social education at a Spanish university. In addition to providing an education and training paradigm in social education with groups, the model promotes learning through groups and shows positive results that can be extended to other subjects in higher education in the social field both in Spain and in other international contexts.

KEYWORDS:

• Social work education
• experiential learning
• group work
• continuous assessment
• teaching model

Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank the students who gave their consent for this experience to be disseminated.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes

1. All of the data is available upon request to the author of the article and professor responsible for the experience: [email protected].