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Greening Social Work Education

edited by Susan Hillock

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2024
Category
Social Work, Higher
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487555221
    Publish Date
    Feb 2024
    List Price
    $38.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487555207
    Publish Date
    Feb 2024
    List Price
    $85.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487555238
    Publish Date
    Mar 2024
    List Price
    $38.95

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Description

Despite urgent calls for global action, sustainable social work practice, and a solid “green” theoretical knowledge base, North American social work and helping professions have been slow to learn from community activists, acknowledge the international climate emergency, and act collectively to achieve climate justice.

 

Greening Social Work Education examines how social work educators can best incorporate sustainability content into social work curricula, integrate green teaching methods, and mobilize students and colleagues towards climate action, justice, and leadership. Drawing on Canadian content, this collection highlights Indigenous, eco-feminist, collective-action, and multi-interdisciplinary approaches to social work. The book provides a rationale for why the topic of greening is important for social work and the helping professions; discussion of current debates, tensions, and issues; useful ideas related to innovative interdisciplinary theoretical approaches, analyses, and constructs; and practical recommendations for teaching green social work education. In doing so, Greening Social Work Education strives to help social workers and educators gain the confidence and tools they need to transform their teaching and curricula.

About the author

Susan Hillock is an associate professor of social work and a faculty member in the Department of Social Work and the Department of Graduate Studies in Education at Trent University.

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