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Teaching Methods and Learning Styles

Session: Teaching Politically Charged Topics in Social Work Education

Anti-Oppressive Social Work Education for Inclusivity: Indigenous Persons and the Israel/Palestine Conflict

Saturday, October 26, 2024
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM CT
Location: KC Convention Center, Room 2502B
This presentation offers tools for anti-oppressive, inclusive pedagogy related to the indigenous persons of Israel and Palestine. Common challenges and practical strategies in social work education surrounding diverse and indigenous identities’ lived experiences related to regions of conflict will be reviewed from the literature and applied through a case example.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Identify strategies for anti-oppressive, inclusive teaching in social work higher education while attending to important considerations for the classroom environment such as microaggressions and othering, as informed by the literature.
  2. Understand the complex perspectives of indigenous persons and challenges associated with social work education related to regions of conflict based on the literature and case application provided.
  3. Develop strategies for facilitating critical classroom discussion surrounding the Israel/Palestine conflict and its indigenous populations that supports students’ critical thinking, knowledge application in the social environment and cultural understanding.