Crabtree, Sara Ashencaen and Parker, Jonathan and Azman, Azlinda and Mas’ud, Faizah
(2014)
A sociological examination of international placement learning by British social work students in children’s services in Malaysia.
Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, 5 (1).
pp. 137-158.
ISSN 2068-0317
Abstract
This paper discusses research findings into a study of UK student learning on international
social work placements in Malaysia in collaboration with two Malaysian universities:
Universiti Sains Malaysia and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. The discussion focuses on
those placements taking place in children’s services: residential care and communitybased
support programmes. The aim of the study was to explore how social work
students adapt to unfamiliar learning situations in new cultural contexts with the goal of
increasing cultural competence. Data were drawn from formal but anonymised student
learning exercises as a non-assessed requirement of this particular placement. Findings
indicated a wide range of responses towards social work practice with vulnerable children
in the Malaysian context in terms of student constructions of care and abuse. Subject to
an analytical schema, the collision or adaptation of otherwise normative professional and
personal values are examined in detail.
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