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Summary
Summary
A critical characteristic of human service organizations is their capacity to learn from experience and to adapt continuously to changing external conditions such as downward pressure on resources, constant reconfiguration of the welfare state and rapidly changing patterns of social need. This invaluable, groundbreaking volume discusses in detail the concept of the learning organization, in particular its relevance to social work and social services. Contributors join together from across Europe, North America and Australia to explore the development of the learning organization within social work contexts and its use as a strategic tool for meeting problems of continuous learning, supervision and change. The volume addresses a range of important topics, from strategies for embedding learning and critical reflection in the social work learning organization, to the implications of the learning organization for the new community-based health and social care agenda.
Author Notes
Mary Allan worked for Stonham Housing Association for 15 years
Harjeet Badwall has been practising social work for several years
Mark Baldwin is senior lecturer in social work at the University of Bath
Jan Fook has taught social work students for most of her career
Nick Gould is professor of social work at the University of Bath
Martyn Jones is associate professor in field education at RMIT University Melbourne
Synnove Karvinen-Niinikoski is professor of social work at the University of Helsinki, Finland
Patricia O'Connor has a career as a social worker which spans 30 years and a wide variety of positions
Bairbre Redmond is Director of Social Work Training in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at University College, Dublin
Amy Rossiter is a professor in the School of Social Work at York University in Toronto
Hilary Sage is practice learning co-ordinator and tutor for the social work course at the University of Bristol
Ian Shaw is professor of social work at the University of York, England
Imogen Taylor joined the University of Sussex as professor of social work and social care in 2001
Judith Thomas worked in residential work with children, also as a specialist mental health social worker, then as a training officer and practice learning organizer in various local authorities
Table of Contents
| Contributors | p. vii |
| Introduction: The Learning Organization and Reflective Practice--the Emergence of a Concept | p. 1 |
| 1 Supervision, Learning and Transformative Practices | p. 11 |
| 2 Social Work Supervision: Contributing to innovative Knowledge Production and Open Expertise | p. 23 |
| 3 Critical Reflection: Opportunities and Threats to Professional Learning and Service Development in Social Work Organizations | p. 41 |
| 4 Critical Reflection and Organizational Learning and Change: A Case Study | p. 57 |
| 5 Multi-professional Teams and the Learning Organization | p. 75 |
| 6 Sustaining Reflective Practice in the Workplace | p. 87 |
| 7 Using 'Critical Incident Analysis' to Promote Critical Reflection and Holistic Assessment | p. 101 |
| 8 Evaluation for a Learning Organization? | p. 117 |
| 9 Reflecting on Practice: Exploring Individual and Organizational Learning through a Reflective Teaching Model | p. 129 |
| 10 Living out Histories and Identities in Organizations: A Case Study from Three Perspectives | p. 143 |
| 11 Conclusions: Optimism and the Art of the Possible | p. 161 |
| Bibliography | p. 177 |
| Index | p. 199 |
