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Paper Presentation

Community Organization and Social Administration

Session: Preparing the Next Generation of Social Workers

Come and See: Inviting Students to More Critically and Equitably Engage in Their Communities

Friday, October 25, 2024
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM CT
Location: KC Convention Center, Room 2504A

    Presenter(s)

  • Josh Lown, MSW, PhD

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Northeastern University
    Boston, MA, United States

Using my dissertation as a case study, this paper presents the argument that social work practitioners and students should engage with the communities they seek to work with through a critical, meaningful, participatory, and action-oriented lens.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Articulate the relationship between learning outcomes, embedded institutional hierarchies, and community engagement for social work students and researchers.
  2. Describe the role of participatory and action research in classroom and field-based settings.
  3. Articulate new ways of engaging in social work pedagogy that more equitably invites students into their surrounding communities to better understand impacts of social welfare policy and social work practice.