SOCWORK 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Ableism, Racialization, Conditionality
31 Oct 2013
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Lecture 20: children and youth: oppression in the child welfare system and education systems. All about human rights and the environment making the world a better place for everyone. 16 different working groups: like fossil free mcmaster. Campaign to stop university from investing in the fossil fuel industry. Stop causing climate change and invest in solutions instead. Resource library where you can sign out dvds, books, periodicals etc: musc 229. Opirg. ca: links to the working groups and contact info for all of them. Critique of education: quite often people learn things they don"t need to know, things they will never use, things they are not interested in. Offers courses based on your interests: to learn not to get the credentials. The models presented today do not cover complexity just there to as an introduction. What happens when you suffer multiple forms of oppression: see chart on the slide. Oppression is about carving out a space of power/privilege by marginalizing others.
