Practice Placement - RDD112

• Title: Practice Placement
• Guaranteed by: Department of Theological Ethics (27-TE)
• Faculty: Protestant Theological Faculty
• Actual: from 2015 to 2017
• Semester: summer
• Points: 5
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:135/0, MC [HS]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: combined
• Teaching methods: combined

Annotation

Last update: MORAVEC (15.05.2015)

Description of the Study Unit
The aims of the study unit are that the student:
- knows how to plan and carry out a placement social work, community development or diaconal work
- is able to develop a personal understanding of professional identity in practice
- is able to use the concepts of participatory social work and community development work
- knows how to work in a responsible manner and follow a supervised, planned approach to the
placement
- is able to write a reflective report based on experience in context, to present the report and act on
feedback
The contents of the study unit include:
- Experience of professional work
- Professional identity and practice
- Use of professional concepts
- Supervision in social work and diaconia
- Reflection and report writing in social work and diaconia

Process of the Study Unit
Week 8
Mag. Tony Addy
Placement guidelines
Weeks 9 - 11, 13-16 (plus finalizing placement and report in weeks 18 - 20
Mag. Tony Addy, Placement Supervisor
125 hours practical work in the placement including placement report
Week 21
Mag. Tony Addy
Placement feedback session

Literature

Last update: MORAVEC (15.05.2015)

Basic literature and study aids:

Lomax, R., et al., Surviving Your Placement, 2010, London, Palgrave Macmillan

This text must be referred to in the Placement report with at least 3 references related to practice or reflection

Recommended literature:

Interdiac Semester Handbook

Teaching methods

Last update: MORAVEC (15.05.2015)

Consultations:

8 hrs. contact teaching (introductory guidelines, feedback session), on-line supervision weekly

Individual work:

127 placement learning, placement diary with time table confirmed by placement tutors; production of placement report.