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Chapter 8
Building Professional Practice
Education Cultures in the
Online Environment
Marion Brown
Dalhousie University, Canada
abStract
The gradual introduction of Internet-based delivery methods into higher education has broadened technol-
ogy usage and led to reflection on the pedagogical implications for social work education taught online,
with considerations for content, design and delivery. This chapter reviews the use of online technologies
in post secondary education, the use of critical reflection as a pedagogical tool, and social work field
education, to contextualize the experience of the Dalhousie University School of Social Work's distance
delivery field education course. In the experience of Dalhousie University School of Social Work, the
knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes of its student practitioners have been enhanced through the
use of online integrative seminar case analysis and critical reflection facilitated via distance delivery.
This chapter develops the connections among the online environment, adult education principles, and
critical reflection on field education in social work, to craft an expanded message regarding transfor-
mative social work practice.
introDuction
'Education is what survives when what has been
learned has been forgotten'. -- B.F. Skinner
(1904-90), American psychologist quoted in New
Scientist 21 May 1964 in Oxford Dictionary of
Quotations (2004, p.739:11).
Over the last 20 years computer assisted technologies
for online learning have become integrated within
social work education programs internationally
(Stocks & Freddolino, 2000). While largely an-
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