Book Chapter

Using closed Facebook groups to teach social work skills, values, and approaches for social media

Cooner, Tarsem Singh

2014

Overview

Social media is beginning to play an increasingly important part in the way people are learning about each other and mediating their relationships in society. Before the introduction of the British Association of Social Workers Social Media Policy (BASW, 2012), the programme at Birmingham University, UK, had already started to develop practical approaches aimed at trying to ensure students left the course equipped with the relevant skills, values, and approaches necessary to practice in a socially networked society. Based on these experiences, this chapter aims to address three key areas. The first provides a rationale outlining why social work students should access learning about social media. The second illustrates how educators can use Facebook and enquiry-based blended learning (EBBL) to prepare students for social work practice in a social media age. The third uses students' and the author's experiences of the learning and teaching approach to assess its effectiveness in developing students learning about professionalism and social media.

• Publisher: Routledge,Taylor & Francis Group,Critical Publishing
• Subject: Higher & further education, tertiary education / Social work
• ISBN: 9781909682573, 1041056907, 9781041056904, 1909682578