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Exploring critical social work practice
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License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
About this course
This free course, Exploring critical social work practice, will support you to question assumptions and navigate complexity as a critical social worker. Through practice scenarios and reflective activities, you will be supported to think critically, balance professional judgment and respond ethically to uncertainty – skills that are essential across all areas of social work. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course K355 Critical thinking in social work practice.
Course details
Level
Level 2: Intermediate
Study time
5 hours study
Learning outcomes
Identify, evaluate and synthesise information from a wide range of relevant sources to inform reflection, assessment and decision-making in practice
Appraise the impact of injustice, oppression, inequality, discrimination and exclusion in different contexts and consider how to promote equality and inclusion
Critically reflect on personal and others' practice, views and contexts and work collaboratively to enhance outcomes for people who use services and their carers
Critically engage with the ethical basis of social work and the underpinning values of social work practice
Syllabus
1 section · 9 lectures · links open at www.open.edu.
Course content
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Defining critical practice
- 2 Working and learning together with people who use social work services
- 3 Power and critical practice in your workplace
- 4 Involving people with lived experience
- 5 Critically analysing a practice scenario
- 6 Evaluating and improving your critical reflection
- Conclusion
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