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Social Science Social Work

Teaching Social Work

Reflections on Pedagogy and Practice

edited by Rick Csiernik & Susan Hillock

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2020
Category
Social Work, Higher, General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487518875
    Publish Date
    Dec 2020
    List Price
    $61.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487503826
    Publish Date
    Dec 2020
    List Price
    $61.00

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Social work education has the potential to be transformative, consciousness raising, and to produce social change while inspiring hope in students for the creation of more just systems. An understanding of oppression, its diverse manifestations, and its differential impact on vulnerable individuals and groups is essential to contemporary social work education. What then is the best manner in which to prepare educators for the immensely important, complex, and multidimensional role as teacher of social work?

 

Most social work instructors learn to teach through trial and error, bringing their own style, experiences, and preferences to the endeavour rather than having a formal program of education and instruction on how to best educate and instruct. This book addresses the complex and uncertain field of social work education, gathering together thirty experienced professors and practitioners who teach in BSW, MSW, and PhD programs. Together, the contributors create a framework for social work educators to reflect on how they teach, why they teach in specific ways, and what works best for teaching in the discipline of social work.

About the authors

Rick Csiernik is a Professor at King’s University College, Western University. He has authored and edited several Canadian Scholars textbooks: Wellness and Work (2005); Responding to the Oppression of Addiction (co-edited with William S. Rowe, 2017, third edition); Substance Use and Abuse (2016, second edition); and Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Health (co-edited with Cheryl Forchuk and Elsabeth Jensen, 2011) . He has written more than 95 journal articles, and some of his research interests include addiction, Workplace Wellness, social work, and spirituality. He has consecutively been included on the King’s University College Honour Roll of Teaching, and is a recipient of the Instructor Appreciation Award at McMaster University.

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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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