Procena aspekata i efekata realizacije terenske prakse od strane strudenata socijalne politike i socijalnog rada
ASSESSMENT OF ASPECTS AND EFFECTS OF FIELD PRACTICE REALIZATION BY STUDENTS OF SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL WORK

Summary/Abstract: Field practice is considered as an important part of academic education, but the researches of its aspects and effects are underrepresented. The paper is aimed at: examination of the representation of field practice aspects among undergraduate students of social politics and social work at the Faculty of Political Sciences – University of Belgrade (FPS-UB) and its effects on development of students’ professional competencies, an analysis of differences between students of various academic years and an analysis of the association the effects of practice has with characteristics of work organization – teaching base and cooperation with mentors. Research was conducted by TPS1 questionnaire among 201 students within all four years of academic studies. about four-fifths off all questioned students gave positive answers on majority of aspects of cooperation with mentors, practice organization by FPS-UB and teaching base and practice effects, but there were also some deficiencies. Cooperation with mentors and teaching base organization of practice are highly associated with practice effects and both variables combined have independent impact on variance of practice effects. Findings are discussed in the lights of contemporary researches.

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