Restricted to BSW (Hons)
Introduction
Social workers confront ever-increasing impacts of social suffering arising from ever widening and deepening disparities of power and privilege in local and global contexts. This unit equips you with intersectional analysis skills, theoretical knowledge and practice skills to understand, confront and respond to the multiple impacts of social injustice and human rights neglect and abuses. The unit begins by examining the contested nature of contemporary life and how history has shaped how social work has responded to social, cultural, economic and political problems. Attention then turns to social sustainability principles, theories and contexts and what this means for innovating social work practice in the 21st century. You will explore new ways of working for sustainable social change, including practices that engage communities in meaningful ways. Case studies focusing on issues such as climate change, racial and ethnic conflicts and poverty are a focus. You can expect to engage in processes of self and collective critical reflection, mutual enquiry, group discussions, role plays and dialogical learning as they explore the global and local contexts of how social innovation and sustainability form a part of social work in the 21st century.
Summary 2021
| Unit name | Social Innovation, Sustainability and Regenerative Social Work |
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| Unit code | HGW312 |
| Credit points | 25 |
| Faculty/School | College of Arts, Law and Education School of Social Sciences |
| Discipline | Social Work |
| Coordinator | Dr Joselynn Baltra-Ulloa |
| Available as student elective? | No |
| Breadth Unit? | No |
Availability
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Learning Outcomes
1. Use intersectional analysis to reveal how discrimination, oppression, exploitation and inequality are maintained in social policies, systems and institutions.
2. Identify how locally relevant social injustice and human rights issues are linked to global social sustainability goals.
3. Identify contemporary elements of grounded, committed and principled ethical social work activism that are proven to promote social sustainability.
4. Distinguish social innovation and sustainability principles, protocols, processes and outcomes that support the decolonisation agenda through using actual and hypothetical case studies.
5. Analyse the potential for contemporary social policy interventions to contribute to social sustainability goals that are linked to a decolonising agenda.
Fees
Requisites
Prerequisites
100 credit points at Introductory level and 100 credit points at Intermediate level.
Teaching
| Teaching Pattern | Each week, you will complete an hour of online learning activities (including lectures, videos, podcasts and other activities). You will also have approximately two hours of prescribed reading to complete each week. In addition, you will attend 6 x 6- hour face-to-face intensives. In total, you will need to allow 16-20 hours per week to complete all of the learning and assessments for this unit, including independent study. There is an 80% attendance requirement to meet accreditation standards. |
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| Assessment | Reflection on learning, 1800 words (40%) Group poster and case study, including 10-minute group presentation (40%) Written assignment, 1000 words (20%). |
| Timetable | View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable |
Textbooks
| Required | None |
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