Failure to fail or fast tracking to failure
A critical exploration of social work placements
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21496124 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jo Finch (0000-0002-7813-0046, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Suffolk School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ipswich, UK, corresponding author), Prospera Tedam (0000-0002-4703-1678, United Arab Emirates University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 2024-2039 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Work Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-5479 • E-ISSN: 1470-1227 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02615479.2023.2236153 |
| OpenAlex | W4384662532 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 65 |
Failure to Fail” has emerged as a popular soundbite in professions with assessed practice learning requirements and implies that practice educators and mentors are routinely failing to fail students, who do not meet the required placement standards. This suggests there may be people in a number of professions, who are not competent, and may pose potential risks to service users or patients. This position has been particularly vociferous in nursing but has also emerged in social work, albeit more subtly. Given the current dominance of fast track social work programmes in England, (Frontline, Think Ahead and Step-Up) alongside claims that traditional social work education is failing, critically exploring this claim, and in particular the extent of fail to fail in practice placements is timely. The discussion concludes that there is limited empirical evidence of a “failure to fail” in social work education and placements but evidence is stronger in terms of some students being fast tracked to failure. We argue that understanding the reasons why it “might” or “could” be challenging to fail, and why some students are at risk of being fast tracked to failure, is more helpful in strengthening practice education
Empirical evidence · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Engineering · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Interprofessional Education and Collaboration · Law · Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – the experiences of social work practice educators in three organisations in England
Lessons learned from teaching anti-racism on a social work course in England
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Seeing but not believing
Role of faculty characteristics in failing to fail in clinical clerkships
Left behind
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Feelings and Failing in Professional Training
Assessing competence
The Frontline programme
The ‘quality’ of social work students in England
Teach First organisational discourse
Neoliberalism and social work identity
The best and the brightest’
The academic opportunity gap
You’ve got to be tough and I’m trying’
Racism Unmasked
Late neoliberalism
The end game
A Study of Black Students' Perceptions of Racism in Initial Teacher Education
Perfect Opportunity Perfect Storm? Raising the Standards of Social Work Education in England
Social Work, Child Protection and Politics
Running with the Fox and Hunting with the Hounds’
| Citations per year | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |