Brenda Morris

Description

This half-day seminar will be facilitated by Brenda Morris, a faculty member at Carleton University, Canada, lead author of Preparing social work graduates for transformative engagement with mental health systems (In press) and responding to student mental health challenges during and post-COVID-19 (2021), and current lead of the International Perspectives on Teaching Mental Health Social Work cooperative inquiry project.

This research integrates diverse voices, including practitioners and employers, to conceptualize social work practice learning and will provide a framework for collective, critical reflection on methods and strategies available to guide learning and assessment of social work students on placement. Participants will ground learning in their own practice of field placement supervision, considering it in light of existing practice pedagogies such as critical reflection (Morley & Stenhouse 2021), simulation-based learning (Kourgiantakis et al. 2020), subversive practice (Laing & Maylea 2018), love and self-compassion (Freire 1970; Gates et al. 2022), and service user involvement and co-design (Dorozenko et al 2016; Horgan et al. 2020; Ridley, Martin & Mahboub 2017). Facilitated critical conversations with peers, the literature, and ongoing research in this area combine to support the development of practice teaching expertise of those in attendance

Period	25 Oct 2023
Visiting from	Carleton University (Canada)
Visitor degree	Associate Professor
Country/Territory	Canada
Degree of Recognition	International