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- Title
Developing a Poverty-Aware Pedagogy: From Paradigm to Reflexive Practice in Post-Academic Social Work Education.
- Authors
Roets, Griet; Beveren, Laura Van; Saar-Heiman, Yuval; Degerickx, Heidi; Vandekinderen, Caroline; Krumer-Nevo, Michal; Rutten, Kris; Roose, Rudi
- Abstract
Social work scholars have argued that poverty reminds us of the necessary commitment to educate professional social workers. Being inspired by a conceptual framework that captures how poverty-awareness can be the subject of teaching in social work programmes, this article offers a qualitative analysis of the reflections being made by a cohort of students about their learning process in a post-academic course. Five common themes are discussed: (i) from recognising micro-aggressions to tackling macro-aggressions; (ii) poverty is an instance of social injustice and requires collective indignation; (iii) notions of commitment and solidarity are ambiguous; (iv) poverty is an instance of social inequality rather than merely social exclusion; and (v) from being heroic agents to social change 'from within'. Based on these findings, we raise the lessons learned for social work educators. First, they should invite students to reinvigorate the social justice aspirations of social work practices and take a stance in relation to their environment and the wider historical and socio-political circumstances. Secondly, a poverty-aware pedagogy requires collective and long-lasting supervision at the frontline individual, organisational and societal/social policy level. Collective critical reflection and supervision might open up avenues to collectively challenge and change socially unjust rhetoric and practice.
- Subjects
PROFESSIONAL practice; SOCIAL workers; QUALITATIVE research; SOCIAL justice; FOCUS groups; SOCIAL services; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; CONTENT analysis; SOCIAL work education; REFLECTION (Philosophy); SOCIAL change; PARADIGMS (Social sciences); STUDENTS; LONGITUDINAL method; THEMATIC analysis; CONCEPTUAL structures; STUDENT attitudes; LEARNING strategies; COMMITMENT (Psychology); POVERTY; MICROAGGRESSIONS; SOCIAL isolation; SOCIAL classes
- Publication
British Journal of Social Work, 2020, Vol 50, Issue 5, p1495
- ISSN
0045-3102
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/bjsw/bcaa043