Thampi, Kiran, Devassy, Saju Madavanakadu, Goel, Kalpana, Zadok, Iris, Diamandi, Sophie, Kassabri, Mona Khoury, Kuncheria, Joseph Mannooparambil, and Prahlad, Haritha
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SUPERVISION of employees, WORK, RESEARCH funding, FIELDWORK (Educational method), SOCIAL work education, SURVEYS, THEMATIC analysis, EXCHANGE of persons programs, CONCEPTUAL structures, EXPERIENTIAL learning
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Along with the logistic planning, the important focus of international student mobility programmes in social work is on the field supervision process and measuring its outcome. Without a social work council in India for setting uniform standards in field education, this paper proposes a framework for field supervision to support inbound mobility students in India. The study predominantly explores the qualitative experiences of field supervisors from India, Israel, and Australia on fieldwork supervision. The themes evolved from the study are focused on the supervision process, strategies followed, challenges faced, and outcome measurement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Sweta Vijaykumar Patel, Fida Sanjakdar, and Megan Adams
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Research exploring the influences of cultural experiences, future imaginations and aspirations on the formation of pedagogy among immigrant Early Childhood (EC) educators remains scarce. This collaborative autoethnography (CAE) is about the first author's pedagogical journey. Educated and trained in India as an EC educator, the stories shared in this paper offer insights into how the first author navigated and negotiated her understandings of pedagogies from padhana, a more traditional Indian focused pedagogy to 'Western' play-based pedagogy. Using photo-elicitation techniques from visual images as data and Appadurai's theoretical framework on cultural global flows, the changes and continuities of conceptions of pedagogy influenced by cultural experiences, future imaginations and aspirations are explored. The iterative process supported by CAE helped redefine understandings about pedagogies, teacher identity and EC education.