Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn

Field education is at the heart of social work education. However, for anyone who is a field instructor or for anyone teaching field instructors, there has not been a useful, up-to-date textbook available to guide field instructors for quite some time. Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn is for field instructors and for students. The book lays out, step-by-step, how to achieve a quality field education experience for both students and field instructors by placing the field instructor student relationship as central to achieving learning goals and objectives. This how-to in field instruction is a book no field instructor or student can go without.

Council on Social Work Education

We are a nonprofit national association representing individual members and graduate and undergraduate programs of professional social work education. Founded in 1952, this partnership of educational and professional institutions, social welfare agencies, and private citizens is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation as the sole accrediting agency for social work education in this country.

CSWE Press is a niche publisher that addresses the needs of social work educators. Some of our areas of publishing specialty are

-The philosophy, theory, and practice of teaching
-The process and evaluation of learning
-The organization and structure of social work education
-Diversity in all forms in social work practice and education
-Social work in multiple contexts

This book provides a useful and practical teaching resource for field coordinators and field instructors as they perform their roles as educators. Both traditional and contemporary concepts are integrated with a rich experiential base and numerous helpful guidelines are offered. --Marion Bogo, professor of social work, University of Toronto

This comprehensive volume examines the relevant topics in field education. The expertise evident in the material on teaching culturally competent practice in the field advances that domain one hundred fold. This is an important and long awaited book for agency and university field educators. --Urania Glassman, director of field instruction, Yeshiva University Wurzweiler School of Social Work; co-chair, CSWE Field Symposium

This book contains the collective wisdom from 30 years of training thousands of new field instructors and is an invaluable guide to field instruction in social work. It is a well-balanced and realistic discussion of all aspects of working with students and is the most thorough yet available. --Anne E. Fortune, professor, University at Albany, State University of New York

This comprehensive volume examines the relevant topics in field education. The expertise evident in the material on teaching culturally competent practice in the field advances that domain one hundred fold. This is an important and long awaited book for agency and university field educators. --Urania Glassman, director of field instruction, Yeshiva University Wurzweiler School of Social Work; co-chair, CSWE Field Symposium

This book contains the collective wisdom from 30 years of training thousands of new field instructors and is an invaluable guide to field instruction in social work. It is a well-balanced and realistic discussion of all aspects of working with students and is the most thorough yet available. --Anne E. Fortune, professor, University at Albany, State University of New York