Pedagogy of the protest - teaching social workers about collective action and the social policy context.

Autor/inn/en	Zaidi, Mariam; Aaslund, Håvard
Titel	Pedagogy of the protest - teaching social workers about collective action and the social policy context.
Quelle	In: Social work & society, 19 (2021) 2, S. 1-16 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (3) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anmerkungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1613-8953
Schlagwörter	Handlungskompetenz; Identität; Kollektiv; Protest; Rassismus; Sozialpolitik; Berufliches Selbstverständnis; Studium; Soziale Arbeit; USA
Abstract	Global disruptions such as COVID-19 have led to mass unemployment and service overload in social welfare systems. Service users and marginalized communities have responded with collective protest in several countries to affect social policies, which also affects social work education (Bright, 2021). Simultaneously, the pandemic threatens to further erode the solidarity needed to address the tension between equality and autonomy central to social work (Pentini & Lorenz, 2020). Although there are subfields of community development and social policy in social work whereby collective action and resistance is discussed, we argue that social workers are ill prepared when responding to collective protests. In turn, social movements have been pointed to as important for future social work education (Ferguson, 2017), but social work education remains dominated by case management and clinical practice focused on social problems of individuals, groups, and families as well as an emphasis in serving the interest of a social welfare state (Asakura et al., 2020). Conversely, social work education is less focused on addressing social problems at the community and national level and teaching collective protest against a social welfare state. Where there is discussion about social problems at the community and national level, social workers are seldom taught about collective protests by marginalized groups against social welfare systems (Aaslund & Woll, 2021; Noble, 2018), especially the dilemmas and complexity when it is a system in which a social worker is employed (Aaslund & Chear, 2020).
Erfasst von	Deutsches Zentralinstitut für soziale Fragen, Berlin
Update	2022/3