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Indigenous and Tribal

Session: Ethical Integration and Social Work Education: Ethical practices and innovative approaches in social work education

Design, Implementation, and Experiences With an Innovative Social Work Education Pathway for Indigenous Adults

Sunday, October 27, 2024
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM CT
Location: KC Convention Center, Room 2210
Earn 1 CE Hour
Western pedagogical praxis has proven to be an inadequate educational model for Indigenous people’s success in the academy. Learn how the recognition and integration of Indigenous knowledge, utilization of selected adult learning theories, and the creation of a coordinated academic pathway have developed into a significant model of education delivery.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants of the presentation will learn steps taken to develop a cohort based academic pathway designed around the Native Alaskan adult learner which expanded the pathway into college through the development of additional “steps”: Rural Human Services cert. to HUMS AAS, BSW and MSW.
  2. Participants will explore the critical features of this academic pathway that incorporates Indigenous epistemology through the integration of Elders as part of the instructional team, the use of experiential education principles, and adult education theory
  3. Participants will learn and describe the impact of this carefully designed academic pathway on students who have graduated, expansion of their work within their rural communities, and the growth of rural providers of services