Bridging the gap: a socialwork guidebook for understanding functional illiteracy.
Brandsma, Jelmer (2024)
2024
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2024112530125
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2024112530125
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This thesis project is about the development and creation of a guidebook designed for the social work sector. It is created as a tool for those working with functionally illiterate clients. Functional illiteracy is the inability or struggle to read and write at a level deemed necessary for daily living. The guidebook aims to offer a theoretical and informative framework, containing supportive methods and practical exercises with the aim to address the concept and struggles of functional illiteracy. With the aim to improve the understanding of this topic.
By including theories aimed at creating a better understanding of the client situation and the hardships that they face, the guidebook serves as a practical tool for the creation of a better understanding of functional illiteracy. The guidebook aims to equip the reader with new methods to engage these functionally illiterate clients, who might struggle in the current system because of their functional illiteracy.
The inclusion of exercises in the guidebook aims to provide learning activities designed to improve the readers communication ability with a functional illiterate client. Other exercises aim to improve the client engagement. While some of the theories aim to support the readers development of a critical self-analyses of possibly unknown flaws in their current style of engagement with these functional illiterate clients.
This thesis details the creation process of the guidebook and attempts to examine the theories behind the framework upon which the guidebook is build. The final goal of the creation of this guidebook is to contribute to the social work field, by creating this simple guidebook that is easy to read while also being engaging to the reader. I hope that the guidebook can be a helpful tool for anyone that works with functional illiterate clients.
By including theories aimed at creating a better understanding of the client situation and the hardships that they face, the guidebook serves as a practical tool for the creation of a better understanding of functional illiteracy. The guidebook aims to equip the reader with new methods to engage these functionally illiterate clients, who might struggle in the current system because of their functional illiteracy.
The inclusion of exercises in the guidebook aims to provide learning activities designed to improve the readers communication ability with a functional illiterate client. Other exercises aim to improve the client engagement. While some of the theories aim to support the readers development of a critical self-analyses of possibly unknown flaws in their current style of engagement with these functional illiterate clients.
This thesis details the creation process of the guidebook and attempts to examine the theories behind the framework upon which the guidebook is build. The final goal of the creation of this guidebook is to contribute to the social work field, by creating this simple guidebook that is easy to read while also being engaging to the reader. I hope that the guidebook can be a helpful tool for anyone that works with functional illiterate clients.