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Field Education

Session: Building representation in field education through diversity

Social Work Practicum Innovations: Dismantling, Decolonizing, and Meeting Diverse Needs in Field Education

Saturday, October 26, 2024
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM CT
Location: KC Convention Center, Room 2207
This presentation will highlight an innovation in field education being implemented at the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada to meet the diverse needs of students while also disrupting colonial models of social work practice and systems of care.

Learning Objectives:

  1. identify the strategies and approaches implemented in a self-directed practicum implemented at the University of Calgary.
  2. describe how the outcomes of the self-directed practicum informed recent curricular changes at the University of Calgary.
  3. consider how these approaches can disrupt colonizing and marginalizing systems to ensure diverse student needs are met.