LESSONS FROM THE FIELD: SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE WITH MULTICULTURAL ELDERS
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Educational Gerontology
- Vol. 19 (6) , 511-523
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0360127930190604
Abstract
This article briefly reviews the present status of multicultural social work education and presents the results from a pilot study that explored educational strategies utilized by gerontology field instructors in multicultural settings. A variety of teaching strategies to foster culturally sensitive social work practice are identified. These strategies include the purposeful assignment of ethnic and minority clients to students, the use of role play, specific reading assignments, and the use of student‐supervisory meetings as an arena in which to raise and discuss multicultural social work issues. Finally, this article offers suggestions for strengthening the class and field partnership in multicultural social work education.Keywords
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