A National Survey of Australian Social Work Field Education Programs: Innovation with Limited Capacity

Ines Zuchowski · Helen Cleak · Amanda Nickson

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Social work field education programs globally are struggling to meet the demands of providing suitable placements for students and need to consider new and innovative placement models to both meet professional accreditation requirements and deliver high quality field education opportunities for social work students. This article reports on the qualitative responses of a national survey of Australian social work field education programs, which explored current challenges, innovative responses, and recommendations for the Australian Social Work Education and Accreditation Standards (ASWEAS) review, as well as hopes for the future of field education, and their capacity to undertake research into this area. Findings suggested that field education programs have been using incremental innovation in field education, including collaboration, partnerships, and new ways of responding to the changing student body. However, it is argued that radical structural change and additional resources will be needed for innovation to be more than merely incremental.IMPLICATIONS Social work field education as a distinct pedagogy needs to be supported through evidence-based research in order to respond to current pressures.Collaboration in field education practice and research is valuable, but may be challenged by program competition.Structural innovation and accepting diversity in models could offer opportunities for social work education.

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