Continuing Education And Lifelong Learning In Social Work

Author : Paul A. Kurzman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351332600
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning in Social Work written by Paul A. Kurzman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the present development, gradual evolution, and current status of social work continuing education. The contributors demonstrate the rapidly growing importance of continuing education (CE) in the social work profession; look closely at present trends; and address the emerging pedagogical issues that will likely frame the future. The rapid expansion of CE offerings is partly stimulated by CE now being a licensure renewal requirement across the United States, which quite clearly is having a central impact in expanding the demand for CE education and lifelong learning for professional practice. Relevant for social work students, graduates and educators, in the USA and abroad, this book represents an authoritative statement, authored by widely recognized educators and practitioners who are on the forefront of continuing education and lifelong learning. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Teaching in Social Work.

Author : Auldeen Alsop
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118539567
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continuing Professional Development in Health and Social Care written by Auldeen Alsop and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All allied health and social care professionals are required to engage in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in order to systematically maintain, improve and broaden their knowledge and skills and so develop the personal qualities and attributes required in their working lives. Extensively updated and revised, this second edition now reflects the latest regulatory requirements of health and social care professionals in the UK, and addresses the needs of health professionals working worldwide, including social workers who are now regulated in the UK by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). In addition, new chapters address the specific needs of support workers and students of the relevant professions. The book discusses the theoretical basis for maintaining competence and offers practical guidance on how to develop a strategy for professional and career development. Ways of developing and maintaining a portfolio and of creating a profile to meet regulatory body requirements are addressed, and there is an emphasis on the development of learning skills, skills of reflection and critical evaluation as central to the CPD process. Attention is given to the specific needs of those professionals working directly with service users in practice, those holding managerial positions, employed in education and undertaking research. The second edition of this practical guide provides invaluable advice for successful continuing professional development for health and social care professionals at all stages of their career. • Provides practical guidance on strategies for lifelong learning and continuing professional development • Addresses the very latest CPD and regulatory requirements for health and social care professionals • Includes specific CPD strategies for students and support workers as well as professionals employed in practice, management, education and research

Author : Carol E. Kasworm
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412960509
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education written by Carol E. Kasworm and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the contributions of 75 leading authors in the field, this 2010 Edition of the respected Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education provides adult education scholars, programme administrators, and teachers with a solid foundation for understanding the current guiding beliefs, practices, and tensions faced in the field, as well as a basis for developing and refining their own approaches to their work and scholarship. Offering expanded discussions in the areas of social justice, technology, and the global dimensions of adult and continuing education, the Handbook continues the tradition of previous volumes with discussions of contemporary theories, current forms and contexts of practice, and core processes and functions. Insightful chapters examine adult and continuing education as it relates to gender and sexuality, race, our aging society, class and place, and disability.

Author : Deo H. Poonwassie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781550771251
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fundamentals of Adult Education written by Deo H. Poonwassie and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adult education takes many forms - skills training, professional development, personal development, leisure activities, and programs for ethnic groups, the elderly, and specially targeted groups. There are many organizations involved in providing these services, such as volunteer organizations, universities, colleges, businesses, public school boards and governments. This book is intended as a contribution to the study and practice of adult education in Canada. It is intended mainly for beginning students at universities and colleges, but practitioners and laypersons will find the selections stimulating and useful. The contributors are researchers and practitioners from all walks of life. They provide the reader with current research, stimulating thoughts, and insightful commentary.

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309151333
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today in the United States, the professional health workforce is not consistently prepared to provide high quality health care and assure patient safety, even as the nation spends more per capita on health care than any other country. The absence of a comprehensive and well-integrated system of continuing education (CE) in the health professions is an important contributing factor to knowledge and performance deficiencies at the individual and system levels. To be most effective, health professionals at every stage of their careers must continue learning about advances in research and treatment in their fields (and related fields) in order to obtain and maintain up-to-date knowledge and skills in caring for their patients. Many health professionals regularly undertake a variety of efforts to stay up to date, but on a larger scale, the nation's approach to CE for health professionals fails to support the professions in their efforts to achieve and maintain proficiency. Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions illustrates a vision for a better system through a comprehensive approach of continuing professional development, and posits a framework upon which to develop a new, more effective system. The book also offers principles to guide the creation of a national continuing education institute.

Author : John Joseph Scanlon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780894920028
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Plan a College Program for Older People written by John Joseph Scanlon and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barry Cournoyer
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Work Portfolio written by Barry Cournoyer and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In THE SOCIAL WORK PORTFOLIO, the authors emphasize that learning how to learn and continuing to learn are fundamental processes for professional social workers in the twenty-first century. The text provides students with a tool to plan, assess, and document the nature, scope, and quality of learning during--and following--formal university study. The book is intended to help students to develop their own social work portfolio.

Author : Peter Jarvis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134377908
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adult Education and Lifelong Learning written by Peter Jarvis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-03 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third edition of Peter Jarvis' classic textbook, Adult and Continuing Education, which established itself as the most widely used and respected book about education for adults today. In this new edition, the author has made extensive revisions and included substantial additional material to take account of the many changes that have occurred in the field of adult education. Additional and updated material in this much-anticipated new edition includes: a discussion on both globalisation and Europeanisation, indicating the pressures that have been exerted on the educational system to change a greater emphasis on lifelong education, lifelong learning and society an extended discussion on the theorists of distance education and introductory material on e-learning and on-line learning an updated look at changes in UK policy and European policy documents new material on the relationship between research, learning and the changing approaches to knowledge, with more emphasis placed on action learning and research.

Author : Grant Loavenbruck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continuing Social Work Education written by Grant Loavenbruck and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : F. W. Jessup
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483139549
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lifelong Learning written by F. W. Jessup and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-17 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lifelong Learning: A Symposium on Continuing Education is a selection of papers presented at the December 1965 meeting of the UNESCO International Committee for the Advancement of Adult Education. Contributors focus on the importance of lifelong learning and its practical implications, offering views on a wide range of topics such as continued professional education, industrial education, the media of mass communication, and the role of schools, colleges, and universities in promoting adult education. This book is comprised of nine chapters and opens with a discussion on the idea of lifelong learning and its implications for formal educational institutions. The following chapters deal with professional education; industrial education; the media of mass communication; and whether voluntary associations, whose ends are not primarily educational, should think of themselves as having some responsibility for helping their members to achieve lifelong learning. The responsibility of libraries and museums as well as public authorities in promoting adult education is also examined. The final chapter evaluates lifelong learning in relation to social and economic policy. This monograph will be of interest to educators and policymakers.