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    CAROLINE.ALDRIDGESW@YAHOO.COM

    THE LEARNING SOCIAL WORKER

    Caroline Aldridge - social worker, author, speaker, trainer and practice educator. 

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    The importance of a place called home: connection, loss, and hope.

    The importance of a place called home: connection, loss, and hope.

    The Pit of Inaction: My Thoughts

    The Pit of Inaction: My Thoughts

    Threads of love: From He Died Waiting to They Died Waiting (and beyond)

    Threads of love: From He Died Waiting to They Died Waiting (and beyond)

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    Untangling the threads: Using a stitched reflective journal to make sense of things.

    Untangling the threads: Using a stitched reflective journal to make sense of things.

    Creativity is a higher order thinking skill, textile crafts are great ways of processing feelings, and reflective journals are a useful tool for students, practitioners and researchers. In this blog, I shall explore how I combine these ideas, using mini textile and mixed-media collages in a stitched reflective journal, to document my reflexive journey. This has the added bonus of also being a calming and sensory soothing activity which helps me a achieve work/study/leisure ba
    'What about me?’ Author-researcher-insider-outsider-imposter  conundrum

    'What about me?’ Author-researcher-insider-outsider-imposter conundrum

    All professionals in health, social care, or education, have personal lives and experiences that influence who their values and practice. Gaining insight into who we are, what we bring, and how this impacts on every aspect of what we do – developing reflexivity – is a critical part of any vocational student’s journey. My teaching is saturated with the why and the how of managing our ‘selves’ as social workers. This week, in my role of research student, I was being asked about

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