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Making Social Policy “Sexy”: Evaluating a Teaching Innovation.
- Source :
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Australian Social Work . Sep2012, Vol. 65 Issue 3, p341-354. 14p. 4 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- How to stimulate student interest in social policy, while reinforcing its professional significance for social work, remains an understudied topic. This paper reports an evaluation of a teaching intervention that sought to enhance student interest in social policy by: more explicitly connecting social policy with professional social work practice; introducing an assessment exercise that involved visiting Parliament House; and undertaking weekly “hot policy topic” small group discussions. Social work students were found to be quite aware of the importance of social policy to professional practice. The intervention did not measurably increase interest in social policy, but heightened student awareness of their capacity to contribute to policy processes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0312407X
- Volume :
- 65
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Australian Social Work
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 79472045
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2011.652139