Includes glossary and index

1. Outlining the context: Australian social work field education -- 2. Australian field education in the international context -- 3. Field education stakeholders: untangling the rhetoric from the reality -- 4. Regulating field education: challenges and prospects -- 5. Pedagogies informing social work field education -- 6. Integrating cultural responsiveness into the social work field education curriculum: lessons from the community -- 7. Preparing students for field education using simulations-based learning -- 8. Fit, suitable or ready?: taking a strengths approach to student transition to placement -- 9. The contribution of field education towards professional capability -- 10. Assessment in field education: capability, competence and contradictions -- 11. Conceptualising the liason role -- 12. Collaboration in social work field education -- 13. Thinking outside the square: the quality and sustainability of placement models -- 14. The value of community-academic partnership in field education -- 15. Reinvigorating fields of practice through placement innovation -- 16. Collaborating for the future of field education

Egan, R. (Ed.), Hill, N. (Ed.), Rollins, W. (Ed.). (2021). Challenges, opportunities and innovations in social work field education. Routledge.