| Abstract: | The role of the social work tutor and tutorial relationship has received little attention over the last decade despite the implications this has had for developing competent practitioners. It is the authors' contention that unless the tutor/tutee relationship is developed within an empowering framework, then it potentially can lead to competence being defined around an administrative and therefore limiting approach to practice. While such an approach may predominate within modern social services this does not mean that it is inevitable or unable to be challenged and changed. This paper considers one approach to developing the tutorial relationship within an empowering framework that uses the processes of the course to empower students to take greater control of their learning and builds a model for their future supervisory relationships in practice. |
