Cracking the code nurse educators learning from the experiences of newly qualifed black social workers from the United Kingdom

Joint Event on 4^th World Congress on Nursing Education & Research & Annual Congress on Child Care: Mental Health, Psychology & Nursing

April 12-13, 2019 | Toronto, Canada

Claire Felix Baptiste

London South Bank University, UK

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Nurs Care

Abstract :

Historically the performance of black social work students has lingered way behind their white counterparts. Cracking the code is a qualitative phenomenological study that aims to identify the factors that influence academic success on the degree in social work. The studies objectives were to examine student constructs of academic success and explore behavioral factors that influenced their performance on the social work degree. Cracking the Code used face to face and synchronized interviews with newly qualified social workers (NQSW)â??s and their former educators. Cracking the code found that the landscape for black social work students is changing. The preliminary results found that when black students are in the majority population they had the ability to mobilize and take ownership of their learning. The participants of cracking the code proved that they had the ability to overcome adversity and reframed the deficit models propagated by previous social work educational studies since they outperformed their white counterparts. Cracking the code has implications for the retention of future black social work students and the social work education curriculum. The findings for cracking the code can help in better understanding of the needs of black students in professional training and has implications for improving the performance of black students in other professional training environments.

Biography :

Claire Felix-Baptiste has a long history of teaching social work education having spent 12years tutoring on the Open Universities Social Work undergraduate degree programme and 10years at London South Bank University. She is the Course Director for the current undergraduate cohorts. She is about to complete her Professional Doctorate in Education (October 2018) and in July 2018 she was voted the lecture of the year for the universities Excellence in Teaching Award. Her research interests lie in the social, psychological and economic development of African and Caribbean communities residing in the United Kingdom and across the Diaspora.

E-mail: Felixc@lsbu.ac.uk