Field Study
2021/2022
Content, progress and pedagogy of the module
The module is connected closely to modules ‘Problem based learning (15 ECTS) and ‘Practice Research and Service User Perspectives’ (10 ECTS). Although divided into three modules the three modules will be overlapping as ‘Practice Research and Service User. Perspectives’ will be the focus of the Field Study and the PBL-project.
The aim of the module is to provide students with knowledge, skills and competences to conduct a field study with a focus on practice research and service user perspectives. Students will through visits in social work practices conduct a piece of study defining the specific institutional dynamics within the organization related to service user perspectives and practice research.
Learning objectives
Knowledge
- about various institutional contexts and actors of welfare production and social work practice including social work actors
- about differentiation and complex dynamics in social interventions
- about practice research methodologies and processes
Skills
- to identify, analyze and understand how practice research and service user perspectives are at work and constitute complex dynamics within social work practice and within welfare strategies
- to demonstrate analytical knowledge in collaboration with different stakeholders in social work and other welfare institutions
Competences
- to conduct a practice research based field study in institutional contexts characterized by a complexity – and to reflect theoretically, methodologically and ethically
- to take responsibility for one’s own learning processes and outcome
Type of instruction
Lectures and field studies
Extent and expected workload
5 ECTS
Exam
Exams
| Name of exam | Field Study |
| Type of exam | Oral exam
Assessment is made on the basis of presentation and discussions of
the Field Study including
the initial analysis of service user perspectives. Students are expected – in groups – to present the results of the Field Study to representatives from the teaching team and co-students. The presentation will, together with the ability to defend reflections in the following discussion, form the basis for the assessment. |
| ECTS | 5 |
| Assessment | Passed/Not Passed |
| Type of grading | Internal examination |
| Criteria of assessment | The criteria of assessment are stated in the Examination Policies and Procedures |
Facts about the module
| Danish title | Feltarbejde |
| Module code | SAC110005D |
| Module type | Course |
| Duration | 1 semester |
| Semester | Autumn
|
| ECTS | 5 |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Location of the lecture | Campus Aalborg |
| Responsible for the module |
Organisation
| Study Board | Study Board of MSc in Social Work |
| Department | Department of Sociology and Social Work |
| Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities |
