As per the email from Rupesh sir, I have been allotted as your field supervisor. As you are aware, you are required to finalize the organization you want to conduct your field work before you request for allotment of field supervisor, which I assume you have already done. Further to this, kindly note the following things
Field work is part of your guided learning activity and the provision of field supervisor is to ensure that the learning experience is in accordance with the theoretical understanding of social work that you learn. Thus it is not just completing of activities for 45 days but a concerted effort in planning, managing and implementing activities that meet the objectives of the field work through the use of skills, techniques and methods of social work. You are supposed to start your official field work only after consultation with the supervisor. Visit to the organization before this will not be assessed nor will be calculated as your field work days. Individual Conference (IC) is a crucial part of field work where you unlearn and relearn through engagement with the supervisor. This happens through sharing of your own anxiety, confusions, problems, opinions and ideas with the supervisor. Note that five ICs are mandatory and failing to do so will result in repeat of the entire field work. Report writing in field work and the journal is an essential part of the learning process. Remember that 50% of your entire evaluation will be based only on what you write in the field work journal. The purpose of periodic report writing and comments in the journal is to observe and evaluate the progress you have made through the entire field work period. Thus, it is essential that you submit your field work reports at least once a week or once in ten days. Failing to do so or submitting the entire report only at the end of the field work will automatically nullify your field work and you will be required to repeat your entire field work. Likewise, I have also been allotted as your project supervisor. The aim of the project work is to enhance your skills in social work research and be able to practice what you have learnt in MSW 006- Social Work Research.
Meanwhile, I went through the proposal forwarded by Rupesh sir, which you had sent to him earlier. The proposal does not have a title and I found it difficult to comprehend what it primarily aims to look at. As I read the rest of the proposal, it seemed more like a research that had been conducted that an actual project that you would like to propose. I would request you to kindly go through it again and write a two- page concept note stating the following things to start up - - What is the idea that you would like to look into? - Why do you think this is a research problem? How is it going to build on existing arguments on the research problem? Justify with evidences and literatures. - How do you intend to investigate the research problem you have justified?
In addition to this,Kindly note that copying of others work is plagiarism and a criminal offence. If your report is found to be plagiarized, you will be disqualified from continuing the project work.
Kindly note that this is a learner-focused course at ICA and this puts the onus to take the initiative for meeting with the supervisor, ICs and report submission with the learners themselves.
Feel free to mail or call me for any queries and to set up the date/time for the meeting. You can text me if I miss your calls by any chance and Ill call you back.
(Sustainability and the Environment) Derek Armitage, Fikret Berkes, Nancy Doubleday-Adaptive Co-Management_ Collaboration, Learning, And Multi-Level Governance-University of British Columbia Press (20