Erasmus+ PROJECT
Social workers’ education and Service users’ participation:
sharing experiences and improving skills
The model and the experiences
of the Catholic University of Milan and Brescia
February 2022
Elena Cabiati & Chiara Panciroli
Service user’s participation in the social work program at JU
Results from Questionary and Focus groups
Global standards for social work education and training
International Social Work 2021, Vol. 64(2) 161 –174
Vasilios Ioakimidis International Federation of Social Workers – Education Commission, Switzerland Dixon Sookraj The University of British Columbia, Canada
Involving older people in inclusive educational research
The Meaningful Involvement of Service Users in Social Work Education:
Examples from Belgium and The Netherlands
The Service User as a Partner in Social Work Projects and Education Concepts and Evaluations of Courses with a Gap-Mending Approach in Europe
Emanuela Chiapparini (ed.)
Developing people in a network of relational practices: reflections on the role of social work education
What’s in a Name: ‘Client’,
‘Patient’, ‘Customer’, ‘Consumer’,
‘Expert by Experience’, ‘Service
User’—What’s Next?
National regulations for higher education in social work vary among European counties in two matters of importance when it comes to service user participation. First, in the amount of freedom national regulations gives to education institutions. Some are more centrally controlling as in France where social work education is regulated quite strongly by national learning objectives. While other have no clear national regulations as the Belgian example where educational institution define their own focus and intended learning objectives for each social work program.
Secondly, do national regulations differ in explicating the importance of service user participation in social work education. National regulations can have clearly formulated national ILOs for service user participation as in the French example while others are more implicitly formulated giving each educational institution opportunities to involve service users depending on local or course ILOs as in the Swedish example.
SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION
EXPERTS BY EXPERIENCE
