Teaching evidence-based social work in foundation practice courses: learning from pedagogical choices of allied fields.
The field of social work is attuned to the need to incorporate evidence-based practice education into masters-level curriculum. One question remaining is how to integrate evidence-based practice in the foundation practice courses. Integration of evidence-based practice across the foundation-level curriculum coincides with the Council on Social Work Education's mandate that student's engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research. Through a discussion of definitions, criticisms, and pedagogy across the allied fields of medicine, nursing, and social work the authors address the current status of evidence-based practice curriculum in foundation-level education. The authors incorporate the lessons learned from allied fields and a Masters of Social Work student's analyses of their experience of evidence-based practice learning to propose an adult-learner model to improve evidence-based practice pedagogy in Social Work.
School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. traube@usc.edu
Dorian E
DE
Traube
Cara E
CE
Pohle
Melissa
M
Barley
D003479:Curriculum; D003657:Decision Making; D004500:Education, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000193:education; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D011361:Professional Competence; D012947:Social Work / Q000193:education*