Reflecting on Social Work Teaching Methods
The Bologna Process underlined the importance of a student centred education shifting the focus of activity from teachers to learners. Student-centred methods have shown their effectiveness in facilitating deep understanding of content, the acquisition of critical thinking, developing a creative problem-solving attitude and an increasing level of confidence in knowledge and skills.
- How should we apply this principle in social work education in the future?
- What kind of methodologies will be most useful: active learning; cooperative learning; inductive teaching and learning; other methods?
- What are the most successful experiences we can learn from?
- How can learning and teaching methods in different settings better respond to the different life situations of students, including adult part-time students?
- Which ICT methods have been successfully utilised in social work education and what are their strengths and weaknesses?
