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