Field Education has been official designated by the Council on Social Work Education as the Signature Pedagogy of social work.
Signature pedagogy represents the form of instruction and learning in which a profession socializes its students to perform the role of practitioner. Each profession has a unique pedagogy of engagement in learning which connects thinking and acting. In social work, the signature pedagogy is field education. Here the student learns the application of disciplined knowledge in real agencies through a guided experience with real clients under the supervision of a seasoned professional field instructor. Read More