SWP 31A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Community Building, False Consciousness, Fallacy

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SWP 31A/B
• Professor: Akua Benjamin

Document Summary

Encourages cuts in social service funding, leading to privatization. Promotes policies that benefit businesses: globalization. Closer integrations of economic, social, political, environmental and legal policies across nations. Has potential to promote social justice, but has a tendency to do the opposite: managerialism. Must engage with the knowledge and experience of students so that the words taught are relevant to building critical understanding of our everyday life. 3 principles of community education in health and social service settings: 1. Respect for the lived experience of community members. Challenge the separation of formal and informal knowledge. Explores community members existing knowledge of the concern, rather than assuming the status of expert in relation to it. If one mother feels comfortable and confident in handling toddler tantrums, ask her to share her knowledge with her peers: 2. Education through dialogue (cid:862)tea(cid:272)he(cid:396)(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)stude(cid:374)t(cid:863) is (cid:396)epla(cid:272)ed (cid:449)ith co-learners. E(cid:374)(cid:272)ou(cid:396)aged to (cid:272)(cid:396)iti(cid:272)all(cid:455) a(cid:374)al(cid:455)ze (cid:862)e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)t k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge(cid:863: 3.