SWK710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Problem Solving, Information Literacy, Discourse Analysis
Document Summary
Title: advocacy and leadership in social policy contexts. This course introduces you to the australian social policy landscape and how social work services and practice is shaped within this context. Social policy impacts on the welfare of a nation"s citizens, through mechanisms for distributing society"s resources. Social policy is underpinned by values, driven by political objectives and maintained by discursive practices. This course will provide a critical theoretical framework for evaluating historical and recent trends in social policy and its impact on people from various population groups. On successful completion of this course you should be able to: Understand how social policy influences inequality, the structure of australian society and the well-being of citizens. Identify central issues in social policy development and analysis. Apply a critical framework to analyse at least one area of social policy. Articulate through written and verbal communication the relationship between social policy and the pursuit of social justice.
