- Title
- Student reflections on vulnerability and self-awareness in a social work skills course
- Creator
- Blakemore, Tamara; Agllias, Kylie
- Relation
- Australian Social Work Vol. 72, Issue 1, p. 21-33
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2018.1516793
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Self-awareness is generally considered core to effective social work education and professional practice. This paper examines student reflections on personal vulnerability and self-awareness in social, educational, and professional contexts. Ethics approval and student consent was obtained to analyse entries from the online learning component of a second year interpersonal skills course. The week 7 workshop, which focused on the concept of self-awareness, was contextualised and triggered by an online viewing of a relevant TED talk on the power of vulnerability. Qualitative analysis of student entries from this week revealed three core themes: (a) a provocative stimulus, which emphasised the usefulness and challenging nature of the TED talk in the context of workshop learning; (b) vulnerability, scarcity, and blame, which highlighted student identification with stimuli material and their emerging self-awareness; and (c) the importance of self-awareness and connection, which illuminated the students’ beginning applications of theory to practice.
- Subject
- social work education; social work students; self-awareness; reflective practice; interpersonal skills; counselling skills
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1420303
- Identifier
- uon:37571
- Identifier
- ISSN:0312-407X
- Language
- eng
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