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Evaluating the Teaching and Learning of Communication Skills for use with Children and Young People

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This paper demonstrates a way in which the outcomes of learning communication skills for use with children and young people can be measured within the qualifying social work curriculum. A two-year prospective longitudinal evaluation of this aspect of the qualifying MA Social Work degree curriculum at the University of Sussex is summarised. The Sussex approach is based on earlier research by this author and colleagues, which posits that effective communication with children requires not just a set of methods, techniques and micro skills, but additionally calls for ‘core capabilities’ to be learned by and developed in the student through a range of experiences and interventions throughout the two year programme. Initial fi ndings from the evaluation are considered, but the main focus is on the instrument developed to evaluate this ‘whole programme approach’, the key component being the completion of vignettes, rated against the ‘core capabilities.’ Further evaluation by other programmes is encouraged to increase understanding of how specifi c pedagogical approaches, in varied contexts, help different kinds of students to develop their communication skills.

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Social Policy and Social Work

Page range

96-110

Pages

15.0

Place of publication

Southampton

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  • Social Work and Social Care Publications

Notes

Research Monograph No 2, pp 96-110

Institution

University of Southampton

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  • No

Editors

J Carpenter, H Burgess, J Carpenter, H Burgess

Contributors

Hilary Burgess, John Carpenter

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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