Résumés
Abstract
On March 13, 2020, Mount Royal University responded to the pandemic declaration of the World Health Organization (WHO) and local health directives by stopping all face-to-face learning, including practicums. This sudden cessation was done for reasons of safety and liability. Rapid shifts were required, presenting functional, ethical, and privacy challenges for students and faculty who recognized that practicums are vital for social work students preparing to enter practice. Using a theoretical framework of compounding complexity, the paper considers eight key learnings from the authors’ experiences managing a social work practicum program, contemplating implications for current and future crisis-oriented fieldwork. This paper goes further to challenge a re-evaluation of social work as a result of the pandemic, social movements including the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as the changing socio-economic factors that influence service users’ lives. These conversations have emerged within the pandemic context and afford a moment to reflect on the place and role of social work.
Keywords:
- pandemic,
- COVID-19,
- practicum,
- social work theory and practice,
- field education
Résumé
Le 13 mars 2020, Mount Royal University a répondu à la declaration de l’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) au sujet de la pandémie et aux directives sanitaires locales en arrêtant tout apprentissage en présentiel, dont les stages de formation pratique. Cet arrêt brutal a été fait pour des raisons de sécuritié et de responsabilité. Reconnaissant que les stages sont essentiels pour les étudiant.e.s en travail social se préparant à exercer la profession, des changements rapides ont été nécessaires, présentant des défis fonctionnels, éhiques et de confidentialité pour les étudiant.e.s et les professeur.e.s. À l’aide d’un cadre théorique de complexité croissante, l’article examine huit enseignements clés tirés des experiences des auteur.e.s dans la gestion d’un programme de stage en travail social, et envisage les implications actuelles et futures pour les stages en contexte de crise. Cet article va plus loin en questionnant et demandant une redéfinition du travail social en réponse à la pandémie, les mouvement sociaux dont Black Lives Matter, ainsi que de l’évolution des facteurs socioéconomiques qui influencent la vie des usagers.ères. Ces conversations ont émergé dans le contexte de la pandémie et offrent un moment de réflexion sur la place et le rôle du travail social.
Mots-clés :
- pandémie,
- COVID-19,
- stage,
- théorie et pratique du travail social,
- formation pratique
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