Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 6-2025
Publication Title
Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work
Volume
30
Issue
1
Pages
36-49
Publisher Name
Springer Publishing
Abstract
Providing a pathway for disadvantaged community college students in social work education aligns with the goals of diversity, equity, and inclusion in social work education. This hermeneutic phenomenological study aims to explore the experiences of an innovative internship seminar incorporating an evidence-based workforce training model, Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP), in a community college-based bachelor’s of social work program in South Korea. Of the 59 students who attended the TIP-infused social work internship seminar course in Spring 2018, 11 students participated in repeated in-depth interviews. The results revealed the themes of perception changes in self, others, and the lifeworld and three key elements within the experiential and interactive nature of the TIP-infused social work seminar course. This preliminary exploration suggests potential pathways for modifying existing social work internship seminar courses to enhance the adaptability of students facing socioeconomic hardships and lacking academic motivation.
Recommended Citation
Shin, Hyungjung; Hong, Rana; and Hong, Philip Young P.. From Unmotivated to Motivated: Hermeneutic Inquiries of Experience of Community-Based BSW Students in an Innovative Internship Seminar. Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work, 30, 1: 36-49, 2025. Retrieved from Loyola eCommons, Social Work: School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Other Works, http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/JBSW-0112
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Author Posting © Springer Publishing, 2025. This article is posted here by permission of Springer for personal use, not for redistribution. The article was published in the Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work, Volume 30, Issue 1, June 2025, http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/JBSW-0112.