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Developing collective practical reasoning among undergraduate students: A social work experience

The context of ethical practice in Social Work. It has been frequently noted by commentators that Social work is essentially a moral enterprise" (see for e.g. Pinker, 1990:14).This presentation takes as its starting point the idea that in classroom settings, students are clearly able to justify co

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Developing collective practical reasoning among undergraduate students: A social work experience

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    1. Developing collective practical reasoning among undergraduate students: A social work experience Annie Pullen, Stephen Cowden Senior Lecturers in Social Work Coventry University

    2. The context of ethical practice in Social Work It has been frequently noted by commentators that Social work is essentially “a moral enterprise” (see for e.g. Pinker, 1990:14). This presentation takes as its starting point the idea that in classroom settings, students are clearly able to justify courses of action which they see as ‘ethical’. However once in practice they tend to suspend those same judgements and see overt conformity to the organisational context as paramount. Our aim in this session is to try to understand and theorise this, as well as seeking to develop teaching strategies which prepare students for these sorts of experiences in practice.

    3. “I just don’t think we have the dilemmas… apart from personal dilemmas… I don’t think we have… because it is out of our control… so it is not our ethical dilemmas is it… really… you know we are a huge organisation... and I am just a little person at the bottom… it is all this structure of other people that make the decision..” "The priority is making sure my file is up to date and the timescales are met for the file audit, this means there's even less time to respond to families problems“ “You’ve got to tread carefully… because obviously… if you step over the line… you will make trouble for yourself…” "It feels like it is one big circle of going to child protection case conference, agreeing a list of tasks and referring to other agencies. At the review stage, the situation is no further forward because there are waiting lists for the resources" Voices from the front line:

    4. Social Work and the State Foucault Bourdieu

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