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This paper discusses a research project involving 5 MA Social Work Students and 1 member of Social Work Academic Staff. Using narrative and taking a collaborative autoethnographical approach, this project highlights some of the feelings that students articulated following a 70 day placement experience. Findings include anxiety, powerlessness and frustration, together with growing confidence, recognition of their skills and a deeper understanding of the role of ‘self’ in social work. Raising issues of preparedness for practice placement, this paper has implications for both social work practice and social work education. Autoethnography (AE) is both a method of carrying out research and a methodology, specifically a qualitative methodology linked to ethnography and narrative inquiry. AE results in highly personalised narrative accounts of the researcher’s engagement with specific sociocultural contexts in the pursuit of knowing more about a phenomenon. Applying such a methodology to explore collaboratively issues of student lived experience of placement is a new and innovative use of this method.Citation
Gant, V., Cheatham, L., DiVito, H., Offei, E., Williams, G., Yatosenge, N. (2019). Social Work Through Collaborative Autoethnography. Social Work Education, 38(6), 707-720.Publisher
Taylor & FrancisJournal
Social Work EducationAdditional Links
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02615479.2019.1570109Type
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Social Work Education on Publication Date 13-2-19, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2019.1570109ISSN
0261-5479EISSN
1470-1227ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/02615479.2019.1570109
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