Apprendere e valutare per competenze: una proposta operativa per il tirocinio professionale di servizio sociale

Formulating competencies for professional training of Social Work, according to the new paradigm in Higher Education, is not an easy act, but demands for a deep insight in the ethical and methodological elements of the profession, as well as a significant attention to the moral attitudes and professional identity of the students who are to become future Social Workers. Furthermore, educational responsibility asks for close consideration and care for society’s needs as well as sound understanding and control of the labour market. On such premises and by taking into account the learning objectives that were developed by International Organizations, in this work will be analyzed the training for Social Work, with the purpose of understanding what competencies a student should acquire in practice and how they will be evaluated by the various actors involved. Will be presented, therefore, an operational proposal, the result of a bibliographic study and an empirical research articulated in several phases, for promoting and strengthening holistic experiential learning processes. A flexible tool, subdivided into knowledge, skills and competencies, both for the first cycle and the second cycle of studies, that takes into account the needs of the various stakeholders for a transformative learning. A learning that helps future social workers to become critically reflective in acting, flexible in getting into new situations and able to innovate by being agents of change.