Abstract

BLANCO-GARCIA, Cristian Eduardo. The staff of professional practices in Social Work: space for the promotion of self-directed learning. A case study at the Luis Amigó Catholic University, Colombia. Prospectiva [online]. 2021, n.32, pp.259-274.  Epub July 01, 2021. ISSN 0122-1213.  https://doi.org/10.25100/prts.v0i32.10750.

Internships are an essential component of the training of social workers. While other studies have focused on face-to-face programs, this text delves into the role of the internship staff as a space to reinforce the self-directed learning of practitioners in remote education programs. The central argument of this article is that the self-directed learning that professional practices require demand not only learning to learn, but also learning to do from the selective recovery of previous knowledge. The analysis of the results shows that such recovery is not easy for students, hence additional strategies are required in the supervision of the internships to obtain better results. On the other hand, this research shows that the distance modality does not represent an obstacle for such learning.

Keywords : Self-directed learning; Social Work; Internships; Supervision.

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