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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation.

Cultural competency has been a long held ideal for social work educators and practitioners. However, definitions and approaches to cultural competency vary widely depending on worldview, discipline, and practice context. Within social work and beyond, cultural competency has been challenged for its failure to account for the structural forces that shape individuals' experiences and opportunities. In contrast, the concept ofcultural humility takes into account the fluidity of culture and challenges both individuals and institutions to address inequalities. This article takes a critical look at cultural competence as a concept, examining its explicit and implicit assumptions, and the impact these assumptions have on practitioners. It suggests that cultural humility may offer social work an alternative framework as it acknowledges power differentials between provider and client and challenges institutional-level barriers. The authors advocate a move from a focus on mastery in understanding ‘others’ to a fram...

From Mastery to Accountability: Cultural Humility as an Alternative to Cultural Competence

SummaryCultural competence has commanded respectable attention since its introduction in cross-cultural discourse. Cultural competence has been presented as a framework capable of promoting cultura...

Cultural competence and cultural humility: A critical reflection on key cultural diversity concepts:

During the past several decades, social work practice in the USA and the industrialisedworld has become increasingly politicised—a consequence of political-economic, ideo-logical, demographic and cultural changes. This new political environment is reflectedin all aspects of social work practice, including its underlying assumptions, theoreticalbases, research methods and educational foundation. It influences how all participantsin the service process define needs, implement alternative strategies of helping andevaluate their effectiveness. Persistent misunderstandings about the meaning of politicsand its relationship to professional practice, however, present major obstacles to the de-velopment of effective responses to this dramatic transformation. At the organisationaland societal levels, these misunderstandings discourage challenges to the institutionalstatus quo. At the micro level, they rationalise existing hierarchies between socialservice agencies and service users, and between workers and clients. To counteract# The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf ofThe British Association of Social Workers. All rights reserved.British Journal of Social Work (2012) 1–19

The New Politics of Social Work Practice: Understanding Context to Promote Change

This article provides an assessment of the current situation in social work education regarding the teaching of content on diversity, with a focus on implications for social work theory, practice, and education. The article provides a critical analysis of the historical development of approaches to teaching diversity content in social work education as reflected in several iterations of CSWE's Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) since the late 1960s. In addition, the article critiques long-standing approaches to teaching this content that have been based largely on modernist theories and assimilationist assumptions about difference in the United States. It concludes with a discussion of the challenges and opportunities social work education faces today that have opened up as a result of the 2008 EPAS.

Access to intersectionality, content to competence: deconstructing social work education diversity standards

This article reports on current and emerging trends in the use of distance education technologies in social work education. Areas studied include the extent of distance education programs, curricular areas covered, technologies used, pedagogical approaches, intentions for degree-program development, sources of pressure to adopt distance education technologies, and policy issues. Results are given for BSW and MSW programs.

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Distance Education Programs in Social Work: Current and Emerging Trends.

We describe in this paper the evolving development and evaluation of a praxis-based comprehensive project model in an advanced generalist MSW program. We explain how this model provides students an effective and meaningful way to incorporate social work generalist principles into professional practice, develop expertise about specific clients and related practice issues, and foster professional growth and development. We present an overview of the model and describe its key elements, structure, process, and implementation. One student's project/process provides a case example. It demonstrates that the MSW program and comprehensive project model represent parallel processes, each contributing to the development of advanced generalist practitioners.

Dean Pierce

Papers

Access to intersectionality, content to competence: deconstructing social work education diversity standards

Distance Education Programs in Social Work: Current and Emerging Trends.

The Medium Is the Message: Development of a Praxis-Based Comprehensive Project Model in an Advanced Generalist MSW Program.