A sociological examination of international placement learning by British social work students in children’s services in Malaysia
This paper discusses research findings into a study of UK student learning on international social work placements in Malaysia in collaboration with two Malaysian universities: Universiti Sains Malaysia and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. The discussion focuses on those placements taking place in child...
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| author | Crabtree, Sara Ashencaen Parker, Jonathan Azlinda, Azman Faizah, Mas’ud |
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| description | This paper discusses research findings into a study of UK student learning on international social work placements in Malaysia in collaboration with two Malaysian universities: Universiti Sains Malaysia and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. The discussion focuses on those placements taking place in children’s services: residential care and community-based support programmes. The aim of the study was to explore how social work students adapt to unfamiliar learning situations in new cultural contexts with the goal of increasing cultural competence. Data were drawn from formal but anonymised student learning exercises as a non-assessed requirement of this particular placement. Findings indicated a wide range of responses towards social work practice with vulnerable children in the Malaysian context in terms of student constructions of care and abuse. Subject to an analytical schema, the collision or adaptation of otherwise normative professional and personal values are examined in detail. |
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| spelling | unimas-51842015-03-24T01:34:30Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/5184/ A sociological examination of international placement learning by British social work students in children’s services in Malaysia Crabtree, Sara Ashencaen Parker, Jonathan Azlinda, Azman Faizah, Mas’ud H Social Sciences (General) This paper discusses research findings into a study of UK student learning on international social work placements in Malaysia in collaboration with two Malaysian universities: Universiti Sains Malaysia and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. The discussion focuses on those placements taking place in children’s services: residential care and community-based support programmes. The aim of the study was to explore how social work students adapt to unfamiliar learning situations in new cultural contexts with the goal of increasing cultural competence. Data were drawn from formal but anonymised student learning exercises as a non-assessed requirement of this particular placement. Findings indicated a wide range of responses towards social work practice with vulnerable children in the Malaysian context in terms of student constructions of care and abuse. Subject to an analytical schema, the collision or adaptation of otherwise normative professional and personal values are examined in detail. Journal Of Comparative Research In Anthropology And Sociology 2014 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/5184/1/a%20sociological%20examination%20of%20international%20placement%20learning%20by%20British%20social%20work%20%28abstract%29.pdf Crabtree, Sara Ashencaen and Parker, Jonathan and Azlinda, Azman and Faizah, Mas’ud (2014) A sociological examination of international placement learning by British social work students in children’s services in Malaysia. Journal Of Comparative Research In Anthropology And Sociology, 5 (1). ISSN 2068 – 0317 |
| spellingShingle | H Social Sciences (General) Crabtree, Sara Ashencaen Parker, Jonathan Azlinda, Azman Faizah, Mas’ud A sociological examination of international placement learning by British social work students in children’s services in Malaysia |
| title | A sociological examination of international placement learning by British social work students in children’s services in Malaysia |
| title_full | A sociological examination of international placement learning by British social work students in children’s services in Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | A sociological examination of international placement learning by British social work students in children’s services in Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | A sociological examination of international placement learning by British social work students in children’s services in Malaysia |
| title_short | A sociological examination of international placement learning by British social work students in children’s services in Malaysia |
| title_sort | sociological examination of international placement learning by british social work students in children’s services in malaysia |
| topic | H Social Sciences (General) |
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