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ERIC Number: ED582609
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 182
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: 978-0-3555-7488-3
ISSN: EISSN-
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Training Social Workers to Be Inclusive Practitioners: The Role of Faculty Development
Singh, Melissa I.
ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Southern California
As the landscape of America changes, it is critical for social workers to successfully engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate diverse client populations. As such, it is important for schools of social work to prepare graduate students to engage in "diversity and difference in practice" (Council on Social Work Education, 2015, p. 7). Virtual education holds unique challenges and opportunities for teaching social work students how to address diversity. In this exploratory qualitative study, faculty teaching in an online master of social work degree program participated in focus groups (N = 23), one-on-one interviews (N = 3), and an online survey (N = 70) regarding their experiences teaching diversity. Using the Clark and Estes' (2008) framework, the findings are categorized by knowledge, motivation, and organizational influences to teaching diversity: Knowledge: Faculty members need up to date diversity-related information, to understand how their positionality influences pedagogy, to consider the implications of instructor-to-student privilege, to engage all students, to recognize how student regional differences can have an impact on course curriculum and appreciate consistent and continual faculty reflection , which may enhance pedagogy. Motivation: Faculty members need to see the value in committing to critical conversations and believe they can handle difficult classroom climates. Organization: Faculty members expressed a need for supportive resources, evaluation of diversity-related, synchronous content and delivery, clear and consistent messages from leadership, an opportunity to discuss and share tools and resources, and training. The findings confirm and further explicate the nascent existing literature on teaching diversity in an online classroom. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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