To develop social work students’ understanding of the global context of social work, an asynchronous video uploading project was constructed to link social work classrooms on six continents. Students in social work classrooms around the world video-recorded their responses to prompting questions and uploaded them to a project webpage, to which all classrooms had access. Asynchronous uploading allowed students to view and then respond via video to other students without concern for time zone synchronization. This pedagogical approach was designed and implemented to broaden students’ intercultural competence, perspectives on international social work, and awareness of global social problems.
BrydonK.KamasuaJ.FlynnC.MasonR.Rosa AuD. (2012) ‘Developing an International Social Work Education Collaboration: A Partnership Approach between Monash University, Australia and University of Papua New Guinea’, International Social Work, doi: 10.1177/0020872812444939.
2.
DeardorffD. (2006) ‘The Identification and Assessment of Intercultural Competence as a Student Outcome of Internationalization at Institutions of Higher Education in the United States’, Journal of Studies in International Education10: 241–66.
3.
DeardorffD. (2009) ‘Implementing Intercultural Competence Assessment’, in DeardorffD. (ed.) The SAGE Handbook of Intercultural Competence, pp. 477–91. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
4.
GrayM. (2005) ‘Dilemmas of International Social Work: Paradoxical Processes in Indiginisation, Universalism and Imperialism’, International Journal of Social Welfare14: 231–8.
5.
HarrisonG.MelvilleR. (2010) Rethinking Social Work in a Global World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
6.
HealeyL. (2001) International Social Work: Professional Action in an Interdependent World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
LagerP.MathiesenS.G.RodgersM.E.CoxS.E. (2010) Guidebook for International Field Placements and Student Exchanges: Planning, Implementation, and Sustainability. Alexandria, VA: CSWE Press.
9.
MaxwellJ.WilliamsL.RingK.CambridgeI. (2003) ‘Caribbean Social Work Education: The University of the West Indies’, The Caribbean Journal of Social Work2: 11–35.
10.
RowanD.KabwiraD.MmatliT.RankopoM.LongD.D. (2012) ‘Using Video as Pedagogy for Globally Connected Learning about the HIV/AIDS Pandemic’, Journal of Social Work Education48(4): 691–706.
