School Social Workers in the Multicultural Environment

New Roles, Responsibilities, and Educational Enrichment

Paul R Keys

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781317764533
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

School Social Workers in the Multicultural Environment is a new approach for creating diversity in classroom and field curricula. The contributing authors offer practical advice for the effective teaching of multicultural content, which is now a requirement in the Curriculum Standards of the Council on Social Work Education. The authors address existing fears some readers may have regarding the teaching of multicultural content in social work and provide educators and field instructors with a model for overcoming these fears and for creating classroom excellence. Multicultural Education offers educators a chance to explore how to implement the required material effectively. While offering guidance to educators, School Social Workers in the Multicultural Environment focuses on fundamental and controversial approaches to multicultural social work education by answering these questions:

• Do educators know how to teach multicultural social work content?
• Where should multicultural content be taught?
• Should schools offer courses or workshops to facilitate faculty development?
• How should schools monitor multicultural outcomes?
• In what way should content be evaluated--peer evaluation, formal teaching observations, or other methods? School Social Workers in the Multicultural Environment, written by experienced educators, field instructors, and practitioners, provides advice on the teaching of multicultural social work content in both urban and rural areas and among many different populations. The book examines in depth the unspoken myths and fears encountered in teaching multiculturalism to students and helps educators and curriculum planners avoid common, unfortunate mistakes often made in multicultural classrooms and field instruction. Topics discussed include:
• Student Learning Processes for Multicultural Content
• Classroom-Tested Teaching Strategies for Cultural Competence in Practice Classes
• A Model for Measuring Multicultural Outcomes
• Perceived Racism and Minority Student Retention
• Differing Student and Educator Perceptions in Field Instruction
• Field Instruction Strategies for Successfully Teaching Cultural, Ethnic, Gender, Class, and Age Characteristics
• Rural Diversity Education Strategies
• American Indian Social Work Student IssuesHuman services educators and curriculum planners, who must effectively teach and implement multiculturalism in their programs, will find School Social Workers in the Multicultural Environment leads the way in creating classroom excellence. It stresses the importance of creating a new model for teaching and practice, for students and educators.

Index

Note: Page numbers followed by t indicate tables.

Acculturation, described, 51

Address, forms of, cultural differences related to, 50-51

Affirmative action, unintended consequences of, 71

American Indians, fieldwork among, 101-111. See also Navajo, fieldwork among

Archibald, P.W., 67

Awareness, oppression-related, 21-22

Bad Blood; A Study of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, 11

Behavior, cultural differences in, Navajo, 104-105

Black Families in White America, 15

Careers, racism and, 65-66

Chau, K., 45

Chestang, L., 65

Classroom environment, in oppression education, 22,25

Comfort work

in classroom arena, 11-14

defined, 8

in larger arena of the school, 14-16

with regard to decision paths, 9-11

in teaching about oppression, with regard to decision paths

concern for student welfare, 11

definitions of social work as a profession, 10-11

one's knowledge and experience base, 9-10

Commitment in teaching cultural competence, 33

Communication

cultural differences related to, 50-51

dishonest, between dominates and subordinates, 67-68

problems in, cultural differences and, 67

Community cultural events, in teaching cultural competence, 35-36

Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), goals related to oppression, 5-6

Cross, T., 46,54

Cross-cultural awareness, defined, 32-33

Cross-cultural contacts, "dynamics of difference" in, 34

Cross-cultural content, need for, 29-31

Cultural awareness

atmosphere for, 39

defined, 32-33

Cultural competence

assessment of

continuum for, 54-55

cultural relativism, 53

intimacy and, 52

knowledge base in, 47-49

outcome objectives in, 43-57

sameness versus difference in, 44-45

skill base for, 49-52

value base for, 52-54

well-being of the individual in, 54

defined, 32-33

teaching of, 29-42

adapting practice behaviors in, 34

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Faculty Personal Comfort and the Teaching of Content on Racial Oppression
• Social Work Education for Multicultural Practice and Social Justice Advocacy: A Field Study of How Students Experience the Learning Process
• Teaching Cultural Competence: Practical Ideas for Social Work Educators
• An Outcome Approach to Assessing the Cultural Competence of MSW Students
• Racism: Its Implications for the Education of Minority Social Work Students
• The Commonality of Difference: Teaching About Diversity in Field Instruction
• A Rock and a Hard Place: Trying to Provide Culturally-Sensitive Field Experiences in Rural, Homogeneous Communities
• Fieldwork Among the Navajo: Implications for Social Work Research and Practice
• TRENDS: THE VIEW FROM THE CUSTOMER-STUDENT OPINION
• Index