Child protection and cultural awareness

What is it about?

Social work educators have long struggled with the challenge of finding appropriate strategies for fostering cultural awareness among their students. The purpose of this study is to show how a computer-based simulation - SimChild - can be used in teaching about child protection to enhance cultural awareness among students and expand their insights into how personal biases can affect professional practice. In SimChild, individual students can assume the role of social worker and then collectively discuss the patterns emerging after their individual assessments have been aggregated. This study, based primarly on focus group data, reflects testing conducted at three Swedish universities.

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Why is it important?

SimChild can be used in teaching about child protection to enhance cultural awareness among students and expand their insights into how personal biases can affect professional practice.