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Knowledge use and learning in everyday social work practice: A study in child investigation work
Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, The Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and Welfare. Linköpings universitet, Pedagogik och sociologi.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6784-0133
Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för samhällsmedicin.
Linköpings universitet, Pedagogik och sociologi.
2017 (English)In: Child & Family Social Work, ISSN 1356-7500, E-ISSN 1365-2206, Vol. 22, no Supplement S4, p. 51-61Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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The aim of this study was to explore knowledge use and learning among social workers in everyday child investigation work. Research was undertaken in two Swedish children’s services departments. The study applied an ethnographic approach. Methods for data collection included interviews, participant observations, reflective dialogues and a documentary analysis of case files. The social workers’ knowledge sources were classified into research-based, practice-based and ordinary knowledge. The findings show that the social workers preferred practice-based knowledge, which was primarily conveyed from colleagues and previous experience, and rarely consulted knowledge from sources found outside the practice setting. Furthermore, the findings suggest that the integration of knowledge was made possible through the social workers' engagement in both a verbal and a more cognitive (tacit) reasoning activity, processes that fostered learning at work. The social workers’ learning was predominantly adaptive as they learned to handle tasks in a fairly routinized way on the basis of rules or procedures. The findings lend support to the notion that the use of different knowledge forms could potentially trigger learning in everyday social work.

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John Wiley & Sons, 2017. Vol. 22, no Supplement S4, p. 51-61
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Child and family social work, ethnography, reserach in practice, evidence-based practice, knowledge use, learning
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-31194DOI: 10.1111/cfs.12227ISI: 000426000400006Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84925046374OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-31194DiVA, id: diva2:951510
Available from: 2015-03-11 Created: 2016-08-09 Last updated: 2018-10-22Bibliographically approved

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