Gender and Diversity Training
| Degree programme | Social Work Fulltime |
| Subject area | Social Work & Health |
| Type of degree | Bachelor Full-time Summer Semester 2024 |
| Course unit title | Gender and Diversity Training |
| Course unit code | 048502041202 |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Type of course unit (compulsory, optional) | Compulsory |
| Teaching hours per week | 2 |
| Year of study | 2024 |
| Level of the course / module according to the curriculum | |
| Number of ECTS credits allocated | 2 |
| Name of lecturer(s) | Matthew RANDALL |
Prerequisites for Incomings: Basic knowledge of Social Work (or related programmes such as Social Pedagogy)
Gender:
• Exploring and reflecting on our individual biographies in relation to gender.
• Exploring and reflecting on the broader concepts of gender identity.
Diversity:
• Introduction to the concept of diversity and the categories of difference.
• Exploring and reflecting on prejudices, assumptions and value systems in relation to these difference categories.
• Exploring and reflecting on how categories of difference are linked to structures of societal power and privilege, with a focus on our individual biographies.
• Exploring and reflecting on oppression in personal and professional environments.
The students
• are able to recognize the presence and impact of gender and other individual categories of difference in a pluralistic society
• are able to critically reflect on these in the context of social work
• have understood the central importance of reflection in personal and professional contexts.
Mixed methods
Presentations in small groups
None
- Adams, Maurianne et al. (2016): Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice. 3rd Ed.
- Banks, Sarah; Nøhr, Kirsten (2013): Practising Social Work Ethics Around the World - Cases and Commentaries.
- Butler, Judith (1999): Gender Trouble.
- Butler, Judith (2004): Undoing Gender.
- Christie, Alastair (2006). Negotiating the uncomfortable intersections between gender and professional identities in social work. Critical Social Policy, 26(2), 390–411.
- Dominelli, Lena (2002): Feminist Social Work Theory and Practice.
- Dominelli, Lena (2017): Anti-Racist Social Work. 4th Ed.
- Moon, Jenny (2001): Reflection in Higher Education Learning.
- Ploesser, Melanie & Mecheril, Paul (2011): Neglect – recognition – deconstruction: Approaches to otherness in social work, ISW 2012 55, p. 794-808
- Randall, Matthew, & Böhler, Doris. (2012). Diversity training and social work: An insight into theory, methodology and practice. ERIS Web Journal, 1/2012, pp. 15 - 25.
- Smethurst, Chris (2013): Gender and reflective practice, p. 101-113, IN Knott, Christine; Terry, Scragg (eds.): (2013): Reflective practice in social work. 3. ed.
- Thompson, Neil (2011): Promoting Equality: Working with Diversity and Difference.
- Thompson, Neil (2016): Anti-Discriminatory Practice: Equality, Diversity and Social Justice. 6th Ed.
Face-to-face