Resumen
Practicum or field education, the signature pedagogy of social work education, is where students learn to integrate and apply the values, knowledge, complex practices, and skills of the social work profession.\ Despite its importance, field education is in crisis. Social work education programs are experiencing significant multi-layered challenges with delivering practicum experiences for students and with integrating research into field education. There is an urgent need to re-vision how the profession prepares the next generation of social workers.\ This presentation will discuss the TFEL partnership, the goal of which is to integrate research and practice in the preparation of social workers through partnered research training initiatives, within academia and across the public and not-for-profit sectors, to enhance student and trainee research practice knowledge and applied skill development.\ The team is comprised of researchers and partners from Canadian and foreign post-secondary institutions; provincial, national, and international social work associations; government departments; and private, public, and not-for-profit organizations. The partnership is built on an inquiry-based learning and transformational approach to create new opportunities for students and postdoctoral fellows to explore, identify, and develop promising practices for integrating research training into social work practice.\ Training and mentoring activities are organized into three streams: (1) Digital Storytelling, (2) Development of Sustainable Field Education Models, and (3) Applied Practice Research. The partnership is structured to meaningfully engage all partner organizations to design new training, mentorship, research, and field education opportunities of relevance for the current and future generation of social work scholars, practitioners, and policy makers. \ This approach intends to transform social work field education through multi-partner engagement to generate unique resources and innovation, and to transition from a crisis model to sustainable models.\ This partnership (2019-2025) is funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) partnership grant.\
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social work education, field education, practicum, research, applied practice research, sustainable field education models, innovative and promising practices, training and mentoring, digital storytelling, partnership