PATHWAYS TO UNDERSTANDING WELFARE WORK

SWP3PUW

Not currently offered

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

This subject provides a beginning understanding of school welfare practice. Students are introduced to key individual troubles and social problems which confront today's schools as well as the current policy and program responses to those issues. Key knowledge values and practice theories required for school social welfare practice are identified and examined. Students begin to reflect on their own capacity to take on a welfare role in schools.

School: Allied Health, Human Services & Sport (Pre 2022)

Credit points: 15

Subject Co-ordinator: Dianne Cox

Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: Yes

Subject year level: Year Level 3 - UG

Available as Elective: No

Learning Activities: N/A

Capstone subject: No

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: SWP2SWB OR SWP1SWB

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: N/A

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Quota Management Strategy: N/A

Quota-conditions or rules: N/A

Special conditions: N/A

Minimum credit point requirement: N/A

Assumed knowledge: N/A

Learning resources

Modern social work theory.

Resource Type: Book

Resource Requirement: Recommended

Author: Payne, M

Year: 2006

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Publisher: MACMILLAN. (E-READING).

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Rethinking social work: towards critical practice.

Resource Type: Book

Resource Requirement: Recommended

Author: Ife, J

Year: N/A

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Publisher: E-READING

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Social work skills and knowledge.

Resource Type: Book

Resource Requirement: Recommended

Author: Trevithick, T

Year: 2012

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Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL EDUCATION, MAIDENHEAD. (E-BOOK).

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Career Ready

Career-focused: No

Work-based learning: No

Self sourced or Uni sourced: N/A

Entire subject or partial subject: N/A

Total hours/days required: N/A

Location of WBL activity (region): N/A

WBL addtional requirements: N/A

Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

Graduate Capabilities

COMMUNICATION - Communicating and Influencing
COMMUNICATION - Cultural Intelligence and Global Perspective
DISCIPLINE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Research and Evidence-Based Inquiry

Intended Learning Outcomes

01. Identify and analyse key social problems confronting today's schools and critically discuss policy and programmatic responses
02. Identify and appraise the school welfare role for school teachers in Victoria
03. Identify and discuss knowledge, theory and values required for effective school welfare practice
04. Critically reflect on one's own capacity to undertake social welfare work in schools
Subject not currently offered - Subject options not available.