Extract from Doel, M. (2010) Social Work Placements: A traveller’s guide, Abingdon: Routledge, pp 64-70. Outlines the possibilities of the practice educator co-working with the student.

This package has been created to help social work students prepare for "live" practice learning opportunities by exploring the nature of good practice. The multimedia approach adopted by this package places students in a wood, they are expected to navigate their way around seven trees that help them explore issues of: self-knowledge knowing and learning becoming and being a professional communicating collaboration and conflict making decisions and evaluating and reflecting The wood the students navigate has been designed to re-create situations, dilemmas and responses that can occur in live practice learning opportunities, the aim is to help the students (as explorers) consider the nature of good practice and to rehearse it.