TY - JOUR
T1 - A consortium approach for child and family practice education
AU - Frederico, Margarita
AU - Long, Maureen
AU - McPherson, Lynne
AU - McNamara, Patricia
AU - Cameron, Nadine
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2016/10/2
Y1 - 2016/10/2
N2 - Child and family practice and child protection are extraordinarily complex. They require in-depth understanding of intra- and inter-personal skills and intricate service systems, and capacity to operate in a constantly changing policy environment. One way of meeting the needs of such practitioners is facilitating their access to experts working across direct practice, management and leadership and policy-making contexts. This article discusses the rationale for collaboratively delivered post-qualifying courses for child and family practitioners, and discusses a highly successful example of such courses delivered through La Trobe University. It outlines the unique developmental process and model of delivery adopted by the consortium responsible for the postgraduate programme. It concludes with reference to early evaluative findings indicating it as a promising pedagogical model.
AB - Child and family practice and child protection are extraordinarily complex. They require in-depth understanding of intra- and inter-personal skills and intricate service systems, and capacity to operate in a constantly changing policy environment. One way of meeting the needs of such practitioners is facilitating their access to experts working across direct practice, management and leadership and policy-making contexts. This article discusses the rationale for collaboratively delivered post-qualifying courses for child and family practitioners, and discusses a highly successful example of such courses delivered through La Trobe University. It outlines the unique developmental process and model of delivery adopted by the consortium responsible for the postgraduate programme. It concludes with reference to early evaluative findings indicating it as a promising pedagogical model.
KW - child and family practice education
KW - Child protection
KW - child protection worker protection
KW - curriculum development
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U2 - 10.1080/02615479.2016.1206520
DO - 10.1080/02615479.2016.1206520
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84978116056
SN - 0261-5479
VL - 35
SP - 780
EP - 793
JO - Social Work Education
JF - Social Work Education
IS - 7
ER -