2022, Summer, SOCWOrk 742-C01, Bernard, Dei-Amoah
Course Description: This course draws on justice oriented (Africentric, feminist, Indigenous, post-heroic, etc.) approaches to analyzing and facilitating change in social services and communities. Students will consider possibilities and strategies for challenging and resisting oppressive structural arrangements, for using opportunities to promote the interests of service users and marginalized communities, for working toward equitable organizational practices, and for improving working environments. Course themes include justice-oriented governance, practices for building humane organizational cultures (including supervision practices and practices that welcome diversity and difference), communications, collaborations across agencies and sectors, and policy frameworks and processes (including relations with government).
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2022, Summer, SOCWOrk 742-C01, Bernard, Dei-Amoah
Course Description: This course draws on justice oriented (Africentric, feminist, Indigenous, post-heroic, etc.) approaches to analyzing and facilitating change in social services and communities. Students will consider possibilities and strategies for challenging and resisting oppressive structural arrangements, for using opportunities to promote the interests of service users and marginalized communities, for working toward equitable organizational practices, and for improving working environments. Course themes include justice-oriented governance, practices for building humane organizational cultures (including supervision practices and practices that welcome diversity and difference), communications, collaborations across agencies and sectors, and policy frameworks and processes (including relations with government).