by Amber Sutton, LICSW
Whereas instructing a social work analysis strategies course to BSW college students on the College of Alabama at Birmingham, I used poetic evaluation as a part of a reflective exercise the place college students supplied responses to the next questions:
- What does being an expert social employee imply to you?
- How do you outline analysis?
College students answered these questions at each the start and the tip of the semester. As a category, we mentioned their responses and processed the exercise. As this was a analysis class, I made a decision to make use of this exercise as an train on tips on how to “conduct” analysis, with the scholars as energetic contributors. I obtained permission from all 10 college students to gather their most up-to-date responses from the ultimate exercise.
Provided that poetry had been a standard thread weaved all through the course, I understood the that means and energy of seeing and utilizing poetry as information, therefore poetic evaluation. I then used the info to rework their responses into two poems. I supplied the scholars with the chance to take part in member checking or participant validation (Birt et al., 2016). As a collective, they have been in a position to view the poems and resolve if any additions or revisions have been mandatory. All 10 college students agreed with the presentation.
The scholars have been excited in regards to the outcomes, and this inspired me to hunt out publishing alternatives. I then reached out to the BSW Program Director and acquired some concepts about tips on how to disseminate the poems. When offered to the scholars, they supplied written consent and agreed to be listed as co-authors, to present credit score to their position within the analysis.
The poems symbolize chosen responses from every of the scholars, and extra data may be discovered on our most up-to-date weblog submit (Sutton et al., 2022), The Power of Words: Using Poetic Analysis in a Social Work Research Course.
The next two poems have been written by Amber Sutton, LICSW, and college students Iva Burdette, Jackie Chavez-Martinez, Jennifer Dussich, Courtney Kramer-Williams, Katie Kramer, Hannah Marsh, Rachel Shunnarah, Natalie Trammell, Ahmia Useless, and Ella Wolfe.
Analysis is…
What’s your query?
Quantitative and Qualitative hand-in-hand.
Each strategies are equally essential.
Investigating social points and evaluating applications.
Gathering and gathering
deciphering and analyzing
information.
Drawing from completely different sources and reaching conclusions
to raised the group.
Numbers and phrases.
Studying and discovering.
Telling and warning.
It. Is. Reality.
Analysis is attending to know the entire story
together with what we didn’t know mattered.
It’s with the ability to learn jargon.
Selecting out what to share and utilizing that to make a change the place I’m.
It reveals real-life experiences.
It seeks to ask questions on on a regular basis issues.
What’s working?
What must be improved?
What are the gaps?
Analysis is many alternative issues in many alternative methods.
Social Work is…
Aiding and never dictating.
Lively serving to.
Professionalism.
Moral.
Exhibiting up as the entire model of myself
selecting to examine my biases.
Wanting on the entire individual.
Culturally humble.
Giving instruments at every level of 1’s journey.
Enhancing one’s high quality of life.
Maximizing potential.
Empowering.
Valuing my time.
Valuing the consumer’s time.
Constructing rapport.
Respectful.
Doing self-care.
Taking good care of myself.
Giving assist and in addition asking for assist.
Boundaried.
Life-long studying.
Doing with a goal.
Educated collaboration.
Advocacy.
References
Birt, L., Scott, S., Cavers, D., Campbell, C., & Walter, F. (2016). Member checking: A software to reinforce trustworthiness or merely a nod to validation? Qualitative Well being Analysis, 26(13), 1802–1811. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732316654870
Sutton, A., Burdette, I., Chavez-Martinez, J., Dussich, J., Kramer-Williams, C., Kramer, Ok., Marsh, H., Shunnarah, R., Trammel, N., Useless, A. & Wolfe, E. (2022, April 29). The facility of phrases: Utilizing poetic evaluation in a social work analysis course. Instructing and Studying in Social Work. https://laureliversonhitchcock.org/2022/04/29/the-power-of-words-using-poetic-analysis-in-a-social-work-research-course/
Amber Sutton, LICSW is a social work researcher and educator specializing in intimate associate violence. She is a doctoral candidate on the College of Alabama Faculty of Social Work.
