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Abstract: Submission #80

Submission Number: 80
Submission ID: 859
Submission UUID: d140256e-1cea-470c-89b5-b3fcd3317e21
Submission URI: /2025/abstracts

Created: Tue, 04/29/2025 - 08:20
Completed: Tue, 04/29/2025 - 10:09
Changed: Tue, 05/20/2025 - 02:31

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Submitted by: Anonymous
Language: English

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Title Dr.
Lastname September
Firstname Uwarren
eMail useptember@uwc.ac.za
Mobile 0697292374
Institution University of the western cape
Biosketch Uwarren September is a lecturer in the Department of Social Work at the University of the Western Cape. His academic and professional background includes hospital-based mental health social work, community development, and higher education teaching. His research interests include authentic learning, fieldwork education, and access and equity in social work education. Grounded in lived experience, Uwarren is passionate about transformative pedagogies that reflect the realities of South African students. He is committed to fostering critical thinking, reflective practice, and social justice among future practitioners. Uwarren actively collaborates on projects aimed at decolonising curricula and strengthening community-engaged scholarship.
Is there a Second Presenter? No
Title of Presentatation Fieldwork practice experiences of final year student social workers at a Higher Education Institution in the Western Cape
Theme Selection THEME 4: Social Work Education, Transdisciplinarity and Curriculum Development
Subtheme FOUR Selection SUB 4.2 Strategies on building responsive social work curricula.
Select your Presentation Type Oral Presentation
Abstract This project is part of a larger NRF project titled Social Work education Post COVID-19- Course Redesign/rediscovering new ways of learning and teaching in South Africa. Student evaluation of a redesigned course in fieldwork practice education using Authentic eLearning is complex and nuanced. Using real-world activities supports student identity and preparedness for the real world of work, requiring students to adopt a position about their professional identity. Social work requires praxis, which is achieved through fieldwork practice education, which is part of the BSW degree. Using a qualitative research approach through a questionnaire, the researcher explored how 52 final-year student social workers shared their experiences regarding fieldwork practice. The final year student social workers used student evaluations and experiences at a historically disadvantaged higher education institution to develop their identity. The use of the 10 elements of the Authentic eLearning framework offered a strong pedagogical framework to foreground work in this project. This research methodology used an educational research design to obtain the collective views and experiences of final-year student social workers from the University of the Western Cape. Students used the questionnaire to give an account of their experiences of being and becoming social workers and to reflect on their fieldwork practice journey. Ten themes emerged from the data and were grouped according to the elements of Authentic eLearning as the main themes of discussion. The findings of this research revealed the value of students' views and experiences, and they envisioned themselves as professionals. This research study also supports other educators in the redesign of a fieldwork practice course in a pedagogically sound manner. Ethics approval has been obtained from the University of the Western Cape (H23/05/27).
Title Mrs
Firstname Neo
Lastname Ravhuhali
Does the Abstract fit the selected Theme? Yes
What Area does this Abstract Focus on? Empirical Research
Status Accepted
Title DR
Firstname KIM
Lastname SCHMIDT
Does the Abstract fit the selected Theme? Yes
What Area does this Abstract Focus on? Empirical Research
Status Accepted
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