ERIC Number: EJ1371456
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-1043-7797
EISSN: EISSN-2163-5811
Contextualized Social Work Education: A Critical Understanding of the Local
Schmid, Jeanette; Morgenshtern, Marina; Turton, Yasmin
Journal of Social Work Education, v58 n4 p719-732 2022
Because dominant social work is mismatched to many contexts, alternative practice and educational approaches have emerged. To highlight educational examples, this phenomenological study explores the experience of 28 Canadian and South African educators teaching alternative social work. These educators conceptualized a multidimensional, integrated, contextualized framework that attends to power and resistance, and extends critical social work education by its focus on the local context. Their pedagogy included experiential, intentional, relational, reciprocal, and participatory, dialogical, land-based, reflective, and reflexive aspects. Their accounts illuminate the importance of developing personal intent, appropriate policy environments, adequate resourcing, and an activist social work body toward entrenching contextualized social work education. Considerations for implementing contextualized social work education in other contexts are discussed.
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Counselor Educators, Cultural Context, Power Structure, Foreign Countries, Resource Allocation, Educational Policy, Cross Cultural Studies, Criticism
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada; South Africa
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