Several schools of social work in Canada and Australia base their programs on a curriculum that includes discussion of resistance. Discuss the relevance of this approach to social justice and change.

What will be an ideal response?


Must include discussion on the moral imperative of resistance to injustice and oppression and the importance of social workers’ critical self-reflection as an element in such programming used to help students recognize that we have all internalized parts of the dominant ideology, and we need to see how it constrains and limits our behavior. It should also discuss what it means to prepare to work as an ally of oppressed groups. The notion that we need to critically examine our own experiences as both a member of an oppressed group and of an oppressor group should be explained in this essay.

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