Jason Batty's Staff Space

Email: j.batty@bolton.ac.uk

Office: QS-26

At this stage of your learning and practice experience, you will have started to develop a more sophisticated understanding of how you can integrate practice experience with social work theories. The module is designed with the use of contemporary Social Work skills, knowledge, and theory to further your ability to critically reflect on practice. There will be links to previous and current modules including Working with Children and Families, Working with Adults, and practice learning placements. Each of the module components will be linked together and support you to demonstrate your Critical Reflective Practice through a timed critical discussion (group) and a 2000-word reflective account (individual) on the discussion. This module will support you to be more analytical and critical within your practice, such as in Practice Placement 2 module, and your learning and development in other modules.

At this stage of your learning and practice experience, you will have started to develop a more sophisticated understanding of how you can integrate practice experience with Social Work theories and models. This module will support you to further your critical reflection skills and recognise how this impacts Social Work practice. This module will support you by linking each of the module components in the form of case studies and reflective journals.

The module will help you by drawing from contemporary theory, practice, and learning resources with the use of case examples, examples of practice, and the use of relevant research. This module will further expand your critical analysis of Social Work practice. This module will support you to be more analytical and critical within your practice and learning in other modules.

Finally, you will demonstrate your Critical Reflective Practice through the use of a 15-minute poster presentation on a Social Work topic of your choice.