- Title
- Placement interviews at the interface of cultural diversity and standardised requirements
- Creator
- Koeck, Clara-Maria; Ottmann, Goetz
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/182163
- Identifier
- vital:16069
- Identifier
- ISBN:1329-0584
- Abstract
- Field education placements permit social work students to gain practical experience employing the knowledge and skills they acquired in the classroom. Access to field education placements is dependent upon placement interviews during which candidates have to display their professional and personal suitability. Placement interviews are challenging for all students. For international students, they are particularly challenging as they represent a litmus test as to whether they have achieved a sufficient degree of cultural adaptation. To date, little attention has been paid to the way placement interviews are experienced by international students. This article addresses this gap. The article is based on a qualitative study involving semi-structured, in-depth interviews with five international students focusing on the way placement interviews were experienced, how students felt prepared for them, and the degree to which language proficiency, cultural difference, social connectedness, discrimination, and Australian workplace culture represented a challenge. The findings suggest that international students need be to better informed about opportunities associated with field placement and the often implicit requirements and expectations associated with it. The authors argue that they would benefit from targeted educational resources ranging from English language tuition to interview role play.
- Relation
- Advances in social work and welfare education Vol. 20, no. 1 (2018), p. 108-121
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright @ 2018 Australian and New Zealand Social Work and Welfare Education and Research
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 4409 Social Work; Acculturation; Attitudes; Cultural differences; Fieldwork (Educational method); Higher education; International students; Interviews; Psychological aspects; Social service; Social work; Social work education; Social workers; Students, Foreign; Technological innovations; Track system (Education); Work environment; Work placement
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