Making Social Work Count: A National Curriculum Development Programme Pioneered in Three Universities

社会工作是准备社会工作者，管理人员和未来的研究领导者在社会关怀领域，在英国£ 200亿产业的主导学科。在社会工作中，人们对定量方法缺乏理解，因此在研究中很少使用它们。拟议的项目旨在开发一个共享的量化教学共同课程，旨在显著提高3所先锋大学社会工作毕业生的量化知识和技能水平。然后，该项目将在整个学科中分享从这一倡议中创建的学习和资源。研究的第一阶段（2012-13）将涉及3所先锋大学（巴斯，贝德福德郡和女王贝尔法斯特），通过涉及10个2或3小时课程的共享课程，从根本上增加定量教学的规定。每所大学每年都在开发专业教学，并审查其课程，以确定可以有意义地添加定量数据的领域。学位的要求各不相同，每所大学都将开发独特的方法组合，以及跨先驱者的教学和课程的共享元素。该项目的第二阶段将涉及将这种方法推广到其他感兴趣的大学（2013-14）。目前有12所大学表示有兴趣参加这一阶段。最后，这些材料和在线资源将通过在线资源与所有社会工作和其他相关学科共享（2014年）。这笔资金将用于：（1）每所大学的领导人开发材料和创新课程所需的时间;（2）从学术界引进专门知识，以研究从这一学科中学习，并酌情与这一学科分享教学;（3）开发一个在线资源，分享从不同先驱方法中学习到的知识。该资源将包括播客，团体和个人活动以及用于社会工作教学的适当数据集。在实施改革之前、第一年之后和RDI结束时，将通过比较学生和工作人员的知识和意见来评估这一举措。这一倡议可以单独供资，但它是一个雄心勃勃的工作方案，如果得到旨在为先驱大学和其他大学提供教学和教学支持资源的RDI提案的补充，将更有可能实现重大的国家变革。

Social work is the lead discipline in preparing social workers, managers and future research leaders within the area of social care, a £20 billion industry in the UK. There is a well established lack of understanding of quantitative methods within social work, and consequently comparatively little use of them in research. The proposed project is aimed at developing a shared common curriculum for quantitative teaching aimed at creating a significant improvement in the level of quantitative knowledge and skills within social work graduates in 3 pioneer universities. The project will then share the learning and resources created from this initiative across the discipline. The first phase of the research (2012-13) would involve 3 pioneer universities (Bath, Bedfordshire and Queen's Belfast) developing radically increased provision for quantitative teaching through a shared curriculum involving ten 2 or 3-hour sessions. Each university is developing specialist teaching for each year and also reviewing their programme to identify areas where quantitative data can meaningfully be added. The requirements of the degrees vary, and each university will be developing a combination of approaches unique to them as well as shared elements of teaching and curriculum across the pioneers. The second phase of the project will involve rolling this approach out to other interested Universities (2013-14). There are currently 12 Universities who have expressed firm interest in participating in this phase. Finally, the materials and online resources will be shared with all social work and other relevant disciplines through an online resource (2014). The funding would provide for (1) the time required for leaders in each University to develop materials and innovative curricula (2) importing expertise from academics to look at learning from and where appropriate sharing teaching with this discipline and (3) developing an online resource sharing the learning from the different pioneer approaches. This resource would include podcasts, group and individual activities and appropriate datasets for social work teaching. The initiative would be evaluated by comparing the knowledge and views of students and staff prior to the implementation of the changes, after the first year and then at the end of the RDI. This initiative can be funded alone, however it is an ambitious programme of work and would be more likely to achieve significant national change if complemented by the RDI proposal aimed at teaching and pedagogic support resources for both the pioneer and other Universities.