Affirming Diversity in the Classroom

Question 1

Diversity and education

Answer 1

Diversity in society affects the following elements:

Who the students are

Who the teachers are

What the subject matter is

Who the field practicum agencies serve, who staffs them, and how students experience them

What the make up an organizational culture of the educational institution is

What the needs and requirements of the profession are

Question 2

General or specific course Content

Answer 2

Given the social justice mission of the social work profession, those aspects of diversity. Most important to it are the needs of an oppressed groups by society.

Question 3

Requirements of the profession

Answer 3

The social work profession and social work education have been strongly committed to addressing race, ethnicity, and culture, and racism at least in their stated, goals and aspirations

Question 4

Students (p.67!!!)

Answer 4

One persistent concern in social work education has been recruiting and retaining students from traditionally underrepresented groups in BSW and MSW programs

Question 5

Teaching the content

Answer 5

Racial identity theory is most useful as a description of the very emotional and social reactions and processes by which people cope with issues of racism, not as a prescription for how the process should take place

Question 6

Continue: teaching the Contant

Answer 6

One way to teach diversity and white privilege is to discuss specific cases (Gillespie, 2003).

** Well crafted cases, illustrate situations and complexities as students may not realize on their own… it can be a starting point for a discussion safer and less threatening than biographical of personal experiences, and will likely produce very perspectives of the case

Question 7

Students

Answer 7

Most undergraduate students in the United States, are female, and given the numbers of women in the social work profession has a hole. This is true for undergraduate social work students.

Question 8

Continued:

Answer 8

Costello remarked that students have multiple identities involving race, class, gender, and ability to affects them in complex ways.

Also Costello (2005) found that class privileged white men had the easiest and most successful experiences in graduate school.. and the psychological reasons for these differences are pervasive and subtle

Identity dissonance indicate situations in which educational, a professional norms do not sin aspect of identity

Question 9

Critical thinking and self reflection

Answer 9

One theme to the discussion of teaching and learning regarding all of the dimensions of diversity, is the need for a classroom climate conducive to both critical thinking, and self reflection