SOWK 439 — School Social Work
Social Work · University of Ghana
This course focuses on the practice of social work within educational settings. It aims at teaching the basic skills and knowledge needed for the identification of students with problems that affect their school attendance and educational achievement and for investigating the source of the problems. It examines various ways of building collaborations and rapport between the home, community and the school. It also helps students develop skills in identifying and working with students with learning and other disabilities. Other areas of focus, include mentoring, student-teacher, teacher-parent and peer relations, strategies of addressing truancy, school dropout, violence in schools, discipline and punishment, and issues of abuse in schools.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 400
- Semester
- Semester One
Other courses on this programme
- SOWK 430 — Long Essay
- SOWK 431 — Human Rights in Social Work Practice
- SOWK 432 — Working with Children
- SOWK 433 — Approaches to Counselling
- SOWK 434 — Working with Groups
- SOWK 435 — Social Work and the Law Courts
- SOWK 436 — Administration, Management and Evaluation
- SOWK 437 — Organisational Planning in Social Work Practice
- SOWK 438 — Family Welfare
- SOWK 441 — Gender Issues
- SOWK 442 — Social Gerontology
- SOWK 443 — Industrial and Labour Relations
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).