| Abstrakt: |
The article informs that social work, in common with other professions, needs to train 'individuals who can live in a delicate but ever changing balance between what is known and the flowing, moving, altering problems and facts of the future.' This discusses how in a fast-changing world the use of intentional, focused observation can provide one means of facilitating the transfer of learning. People understand the transfer of learning to mean 'prior learning affecting new learning or performance.' The approach to observation that we are adopting in this chapter contrasts with everyday ideas about looking and seeing, which most sighted people do without thinking. If this everyday, informal observation is located at one end of an observational continuum, then intentional observation, which is purposeful and leads to action, is at the other. During a placement, for example, a practice teacher may observe a student informally in a number of situations but may use intentional observation as a specific tool for learning and assessment. |
