
The Social Work Portfolio: A student's guide to evidencing your practice
A Guide for Students
Open University Press
Published on 16. June 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-335-24531-4 (ISBN)
Description
The portfolio is an essential part of the summative assessment within qualifying social work programmes. All students are required to complete a practice portfolio to provide evidence of their learning in practice. This essential book demonstrates how students can use the portfolio to demonstrate their learning in terms of developing core knowledge, values and skills.Topics covered include:
What a portfolio is, and how to make best use of it in your learning journeyHow to evidence your capability using the Professional Capabilities Framework for Social Workers
How to reflect on your own learning needs and learning styleHow to work with your practice educator in terms of practice learning and portfolio developmentHow to evidence the use of theory in your portfolioHow to evidence meaningful service user and carer involvement within your placement and portfolioHow to use your portfolio as a basis for future CPD learning, including the need to develop Personal Development Plans and the role of AYSE
Written by a team of experts from Bournemouth University, each chapter uses a range of reflective activities, practice educator comments, and student testimony to illustrate the discussion.
What a portfolio is, and how to make best use of it in your learning journeyHow to evidence your capability using the Professional Capabilities Framework for Social Workers
How to reflect on your own learning needs and learning styleHow to work with your practice educator in terms of practice learning and portfolio developmentHow to evidence the use of theory in your portfolioHow to evidence meaningful service user and carer involvement within your placement and portfolioHow to use your portfolio as a basis for future CPD learning, including the need to develop Personal Development Plans and the role of AYSE
Written by a team of experts from Bournemouth University, each chapter uses a range of reflective activities, practice educator comments, and student testimony to illustrate the discussion.
More details
Edition
UK ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
258 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-335-24531-4 (9780335245314)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

E-Book
04/2014
1st Edition
McGraw-Hill Education
€55.59
Available for download
Persons
Lee-Ann Fenge is Deputy Director of the National Centre for Post-Qualifying Social Work at Bournemouth University.
Kate Howe is a senior lecturer in social work at Bournemouth University.
Mel Hughes is a senior lecturer in social work at Bournemouth University.
Gill Calvin Thomas, now retired, was an experienced practice teacher and senior lecturer within the Centre of Social Work and Social Policy at Bournemouth University.
Kate Howe is a senior lecturer in social work at Bournemouth University.
Mel Hughes is a senior lecturer in social work at Bournemouth University.
Gill Calvin Thomas, now retired, was an experienced practice teacher and senior lecturer within the Centre of Social Work and Social Policy at Bournemouth University.
Content
PrefaceChapter 1 - Getting started (Kate Howe)
Chapter 2 - Evidencing your capability using the Professional Capabilities Framework (Kate Howe)
Chapter 3 - Making sense of yourself as a learner (Lee-Ann Fenge)
Chapter 4 - Working with your practice educator (Gill Calvin Thomas)
Chapter 5 - Evidencing the use of theory in your practice (Mel Hughes)
Chapter 6 - Visibility of self within your portfolio (Mel Hughes)
Chapter 7 - Meaningful service user and carer involvement in student placements (Gill Calvin Thomas)
Chapter 8 - A continuum of lifelong learning (Lee-Ann Fenge)
Chapter 2 - Evidencing your capability using the Professional Capabilities Framework (Kate Howe)
Chapter 3 - Making sense of yourself as a learner (Lee-Ann Fenge)
Chapter 4 - Working with your practice educator (Gill Calvin Thomas)
Chapter 5 - Evidencing the use of theory in your practice (Mel Hughes)
Chapter 6 - Visibility of self within your portfolio (Mel Hughes)
Chapter 7 - Meaningful service user and carer involvement in student placements (Gill Calvin Thomas)
Chapter 8 - A continuum of lifelong learning (Lee-Ann Fenge)