Effective Learning and Teaching in Social Policy and Social Work

Hilary Burgess is Senior Lecturer in the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK, and Learning and Teaching Adviser to the Subject Centre for Social Policy and Social Work, UK (SWAP), Higher Education Academy. Imogen Taylor is Professor of Social Work and Social Care at the University of Sussex, UK, Co-Director of SWAP and is a National Teaching Fellow.

• Introduction 1 Dancing on a moving carpet: the changing context 2 Designing the curriculum: complexity, coherence and innovation 3 Participation in social policy and social work learning 4 Promoting equality and inclusion 5 Students learning to learn 6 Promoting interactive learning and teaching 7 Walking the assessment tightrope 8 Towards eLearning: opportunities and challenges 9 Developing learning beyond the campus: increasing vocationalism and declining pedagogy? 10 Interprofessional education 11 Continuing professional development and education 12 Globalization: implications for learning and teaching 13 International perspectives 14 Developing the university as a learning organization

'The passion and rigour brought by the authors to their task leap off the page and should help to give a discipline-based pedagogy a new lease of life' - Nick Axford, British Journal of Social Work, January 2006'There is something of interest for most social work and social policy academics here.' - Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management