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Inspiring and Training Students for Social Action: Renewing a Needed Tradition
Shannon R. Lane,Julie Cooper Altman,Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg,Njeri Kagotho,Elizabeth Palley,Marilyn S. Paul +5 more
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In social work, it is believed that certain knowledge and skills are learned more effectively through experience than through didactic classroom content as mentioned in this paper, which is why it is important to foster student interest and passion for political action that may generate social change.Abstract:
In social work, it is believed that certain knowledge and skills are learned more effectively through experience than through didactic classroom content. Members of the faculty of a school of social work have developed a Social Action Day to reinforce curriculum and translate into practice material about advocacy and ethical responsibilities for social action; show the breadth of social work practice; and enhance the school's sense of community. The authors share their experience to inspire other social work faculty, so that they are better able to foster student interest and passion for political action that may generate social change.read more
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Policy practice in social work education: A literature review: Policy practice in social work education
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‘Politics is social work with power’: training social workers for elected office
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe and evaluate an educational experience in the US that prepares social work practitioners and students to run for elected office; to work in leadership positions at the local, state, and federal levels; and serve as effective advocates for social change.
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Legislative Advocacy Days: Building Political Self-Efficacy in Social Work Students
TL;DR: This article examined how past experience, confidence in advocacy skills, and beliefs about the ability to affect change influence intent to advocate in the future among 111 undergraduate social work students who recently participated in a legislative advocacy day.
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Social Justice and Social Work, A Fierce Urgency: Recommendations for Social Work Social Justice Pedagogy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the challenge of understanding the meaning and pedagogical application of social justice in social work by presenting and applying the circle of insight framework I created a few years ago.
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NASW Involvement in Legislative Advocacy
TL;DR: This article conducted a survey of 40 NASW state chapters, describing how NASW engages social workers in legislative advocacy, the role of legislative advocacy days, and the involvement of social work students in NASW advocacy efforts.
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Signature pedagogies in the professions
TL;DR: Shulman as mentioned in this paper observed that if we wish to understand why professions develop as they do, we should study their nurseries, in this case, their forms of professional preparation.
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Unfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned its Mission
Harry Specht,Mark E. Courtney +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examines the fall of social work from its original mission to aid and serve the underprivileged and shows how a national faith in individualistic solutions to social problems led social workers to leave social services.
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American Social Welfare Policy: A Pluralist Approach
Howard Jacob Karger,David Stoesz +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a framework for analyzing social welfare policies in the U.S. and discuss the social problems and social welfare policy in the American social welfare state, as well as the social work and social policy research.
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Becoming an Effective Policy Advocate: From Policy Practice to Social Justice
TL;DR: Jansson's text as discussed by the authors takes the social welfare policy course beyond just presenting welfare policy descriptions by teaching students what to do with policy and by giving them a toolbox of strategies for conducting policy-practice.