Quebec Region Report on Promising, Innovative, and Wise Practices in Social Work Field Education
Transforming the Field Education Landscape (TFEL) is a partnership project that aims to better prepare the next generation of social workers in Canada by creating training and mentoring opportunities for students, developing, and mobilizing promising and wise field education practices, while aiming to improve the integration of research and practice in social work field education (TFEL, 2020). Promising, Innovative and Wise Practices in Field Education is a study designed to identify promising, innovative, and wise practices in social work field education in Canada. This report presents the findings from 11 semi-structured interviews completed in the province of Quebec. Participants included social work field coordinators, social work field educators, field instructors, supervisors, and representatives from social work field agency partners who generously shared their experiences in the realm of social work field education. Findings from the study are provided in the below sections of this report and have been categorized into promising practices, innovative practices, wise practices, barriers, and other practices. A total of 135 codes were generated from the interviews conducted in the Quebec region from which several key themes were identified.