Breaking Out of the Box: Adventure-Based Field Instruction

by Kelly Ward, Robin Sakina Mama

Breaking Out of the Adventure-Based Field Instruction offers the unique opportunity for professors to use experiential, or adventure-based, learning activities to help students develop skills that are often overlooked in traditional reading and journal writing based field courses. Integrating these experiential activities as educational tools also emphasizes the importance and potential of methods of alternative learning. By asking students to participate in activities that may challenge their comfort zones, instructors create a situation in which higher risk can lead to greater trust between group members.

Strengths of this New! Content addressing human rights and social justice integrated throughout the text; New! Guidelines for talking to and writing about clients; New! Home visit checklist; Updated! Instructor s manual that includes numerous adventure-based activities to engage students with different learning styles; Real case examples illustrating how social work practice affects clients; Discusses ethical demands utilizing the Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW) and the NASW Codes of Ethics; Perforated, removable pages for ease of use; Included journal pages for written reflection.

Genres: Textbooks, Social Work

322 pages, Paperback

First published September 6, 2005

About the author

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Kelly Ward is chair of the department of educational leadership and counseling psychology at Washington State University.

Reviews

[Rita · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was a fine textbook, I actually found some of the tips to be very helpful.

[Allegra · Rating 3 out of 5]

A guide to social work field placement, I found this to be excellent resource for internship.