Enhancing Critical Reflection and Writing Skills in the HBSE Classroom and Beyond

Master social work students’ explicit and implicit articulation of theory

“…In addition to the aforementioned articles, only five articles discussed what theories to teach in class or how to apply them. These resources address teaching critical social work theory in Sweden (Lynch et al, 2019), student perspectives on learning theory in the United States (Author, year), British social work educators' reflections on teaching theory (Sieminski & Seden, 2011), employing critical reflection as a valuable learning method that could help students learn to apply theory in a HBSE class (Wiener, 2012), and educating about neuroscience (Egan et al, 2011). No articles were identified in these databases that utilized the term "learning social work theory."…”

Use of “Comment Bubbles” in a Writing-intensive, Social and Economic Justice Course

“…Social work instructors across the country are tasked with teaching writing-intensive (WI) courses informed by writing across the curriculum (WAC) pedagogy (Horton & Diaz, 2011;Kolb, 2013;Wiener, 2012). Writing-intensive courses are taught using a "writingto-learn" and "learning-to-write" approach that incorporates writing as a mode of learning about course content and develops students' writing skills within discipline-specific genres (Bean, 2011).…”