Practice-Research Unit: A Fieldwork Model at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia

References and Endnotes

• The literature on supervision generally has been moderate and on field instruction, minimal. Munson's inclusive bibliography in his edited book entitled Social Work Supervision (Free Press, 1979) has only 350 entries of which just 11% address field instruction. B.W. Sheafor said that his edited book, Quality Field Instruction (Longman, 1982) was an attempt . . . “to fill a significant gap in social work literature — the lack of a single volume providing an overview of the purpose, structure, and tasks required for student learning” (p. 18). Some outstanding social workers writing on field instruction include Olive Stephenson, “The Skills of Supervision — A Study of Teaching Method” in New Thinking for Changing Needs, Association of Social Workers, 1963; Elizabeth Howarth, “The Objectives of Professional Training”, Accord, XI, 1, 1966; Priscella Young, “The Student and Supervision”, in M.S.W. Education, Library of Social Work; Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967; Dorothy Pettes, “Staff and Student Supervision”, National Institute Social Services Library No. 34, Geo Allen & Unwin, 1979; Charlotte Towle, The Learner in Education for the Professions as seen in Education for Social Work, University of Chicago Press, 1954; Annette Garrett, “Learning through Supervision”, Smith College Studies in Social Work, Vol. XXIV, No. 2, Feb. 1954; Lucille Austin, “Basic Principles of Supervision”, Social Casework, Dec. 1952; and more recently, Suanna J. Wilson, Field Instruction: Techniques for Supervisors, N.Y. Free Press, 1981 .
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• In 1929 the first trained professional social worker, Agnes McIntyre, arrived from overseas to practice in Melbourne, and immediately became responsible for the training of students in a professional social work course, the Victorian Institute of Hospital Almoners, Australian Social Work, 32, 4, Dec. 1979 (the 50 year Jubilee Issue).
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• The minimum number of field work hours required for AASW membership approval for BSW courses was reduced from 1080 to 980 hours in 1979 (AASW Expectations of Educational Programmes in Social Work for use in Determining Eligibility for AASW Membership).
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• For example, more university sponsored training courses and workshops for field teachers (e.g., in Victoria the Combined Schools Mandatory Workshops for beginning field teachers since (1978): the opportunity for field teachers to attend final year social work classes at Flinders University: annual training sessions for academic staff doing liaison duties with an increased number of 3 mandatory liaison visits and early explicated university expectations of the field experience (La Trobe University); increased use of academic staff coordinating placements in certain fields of practice, e.g. mental health, in order to share curriculum content (La Trobe University).
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• Sheafor B.W. Jenkins L.E. , Quality Field Instruction in Social Work , ( New York and London ; Longman 1982 ), 13 – 19 .
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• ibid. pp. 14-15.
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• ibid. pp. 15-17.
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• ibid. pp. 17-18.
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• Cassidy H.F. , ed., Modes of Professional Education: Function of Field Instruction in the Curriculum: Report of a Symposium ( New Orleans : School of Social Work, Tulane University , 1969 ). See also three publications by the Council on Social Work Education: Field Learning and Teaching, Explorations in Graduate Social Work Education, 1968; Current Patterns in Field Instruction in Graduate Social Work Education, Betty Lacy Jones, ed., 1969; The Dynamics of Field Instruction; Learning Through Doing, 1975
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• Student Units established earlier at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Citizen's Welfare Service of Victoria with the University of Melbourne were augmented in the early 1970s by Student Units at the Royal Women's Hospital, Prince Henry's and the Alfred Hospitals.
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• Briar Scott , “Development of a Plan for Establishing a Facility for Education, Experimentation, and Research on Service Methods in Social Welfare” , mimeograph , University of Washington , Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. ( October , 1966 ).
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• Briar Scott , op. cit., p. 113 .
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• See Gingerich W.J. , “Teaching Students to Use Single Case Evaluation Methods: Enhancing Generalization from Classroom to Practice Setting” . Paper presented at the Annual Programme Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education , New York , March 1982 ; C.A. Richey, B.J. Blythe, & S.B. Berlin, “A Followup Study of the Educational Unit: Do Our Graduates Evaluate Their Practice?” Paper presented at the Annual Programme Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, New York, March 1982; and B.J. Blythe, An Examination of Practice Evaluation Among Social Workers. Doctoral Dissertation in Social Work, University of Washington, 1983 .
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