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Exploring critical social work practice

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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.

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Defining critical practice
  • 1.1 Looking in depth at Barnett’s model of 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
  • 6.1 Making engagement and feedback meaningful
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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