Introduction: Field Instruction in Social Work Settings:

Field Instruction in Social Work Settings explores the relationship between field insturction and the particular settings in which it occurs. The work posits that dimensions of context including laws, funding, political climate, organizational policies and values affect the relationship between student and field insturctor and shape teaching and learning. the article will explore such dimensions of the student/field instructor relationship as goals and expectations, development of professional identity, uses of the self, issues of diversity, authority, dependency and autonomy, vaule dilemmas and the structure of supervision.