Description
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Pedagogies for Social Work traverses new territory by providing a cutting-edge overview of the work of classic and contemporary theorists, in a way that expands their application and utility in social work education and practice; thus, providing a bridge between critical theory, philosophy, and social work.
Each chapter showcases the work of a specific critical educational, philosophical, and/or social theorist including: Henry Giroux, Michel Foucault, Cornelius Castoriadis, Herbert Marcuse, Paulo Freire, bell hooks, Joan Tronto, Iris Marion Young, Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, and many others, to elucidate the ways in which their key pedagogic concepts can be applied to specific aspects of social work education and practice. The text exhibits a range of research-based approaches to educating social work practitioners as agents of social change. It provides a robust, and much needed, alternative paradigm to the technique-driven ‘conservative revolution’ currently being fostered by neoliberalism in both social work education and practice.
The volume will be instructive for social work educators who aim to teach for social change, by assisting students to develop counter-hegemonic practices of resistance and agency, and reflecting on the pedagogic role of social work practice more widely. The volume holds relevance for both postgraduate and undergraduate/qualifying social work and human services courses around the world.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The imperative of critical pedagogies for social work
Christine Morley, Phillip Ablett, Carolyn Noble
Part 1: Key foundational concepts
2. Karl Marx: Capitalism, alienation and social work
Michael Lavalette
3. Reaching Back to Go Forward: Applying the Enduring Philosophy of Jane Addams to Modern Day Social Work Education
Carolyn Hanesworth
4. Lifting the veil of our own consciousness: W.E.B. DuBois and transformative pedagogies for social work
David Hollinsworth
5. Reaching Higher Ground– the importance of Lev Vygotsky’s therapeutic legacy for Social Work
Katherine Reid
6. A Prophet without Honor: Bertha Capen Reynolds’ Contribution to Social Work’s Critical Practice & Pedagogy Michael Reisch
7. ‘Reflecting on Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks: Marxism and Social Work
Paul Michael Garrett
8. From Language to Art: A Marcusian Approach to Critical Social Work Pedagogy
Adi Barak
9. Theodor Adorno: ‘Education after Auschwitz’ – Contributions towards a critical social work pedagogy John Fox
10. Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy for critical consciousness and practice
Stephen Cowden, Nilan Yu, Wilder Robles and Debora Mazza
11. Teaching democracy in the social work and human service classroom: Inspiration from Myles Horton and the Highlander Folk School
Trevor Gates
12. Pedagogy and power through a Foucauldian lens
Julie King
13. ‘A social work counter-pedagogy yet-to-come’: Jacques Derrida and critical social work education and practice
Peter Westoby
14. From privileged irresponsibility to shared responsibility for social injustice: The contribution of Joan Tronto and Iris Marion Young to critical pedagogies of privilege
Bob Pease
15. Critical social work education as democratic Paideia: Inspiration from Cornelius Castoriadis to educate for democracy and autonomy
Phillip Ablett and Christine Morley
16. Sociology for the people: Dorothy Smith’s Sociology for Social Work
Michelle Newcomb
17. Henry Giroux’s vision of critical pedagogy: Educating social work activists for a radical democracy
Christine Morley and Phillip Ablett
18. Social work through the pedagogical lens of Jacques Rancière
Stephen Cowden
19. Giorgio Agamben – Sovereign power, bio-politics and the totalitarian tendencies within societies
Goetz Ottmann and Iris Silva Brito
20. Avashai Margalit’s Concept of Decency: Potential for the lived experience project in social work?
Lorna Hallahan
21. The Relevance of Nancy Fraser for Transformative Social Work Education
Mel Gray, Dorothee Hölscher and Vivienne Bozalek
22. Roberto Esposito, biopolitics and social work
Stephen A Webb
23. Gilles Deleuze: Social Work from the position of the encounter
Dr Heather Lynch
Part 2: Specific applications: Fields of practice, Postcolonial and Southern Voices, Practice Methods, and Fields of Practice
24. Donna Haraway: Cyborgs, Making Kin and the Chthulucene in a Post-Human World
Jim Ife
25. Critical (Animal) Social Work: Insights from Ecofeminist & Critical Animal Studies in the Context of Neoliberalism
Heather Fraser and Nik Taylor
26. Piketty’s inequality and educational convergence concepts for transformative social policy practice
Jennifer Mays
27. The radical potential of Carl Jung’s wounded healer for social work education
Selma Macfarlane
28. Embedding the queer and embracing the crisis: Drawing on Kevin Kumashiro’s anti oppressive pedagogies for social work education and practice.
Jen Kaighin
29. The Panopticon Effect: Understanding Gendered Subjects of Coercive Control through a reading of Judith Butler
Jamilla Rosdahl
30. Disrupting Ableism in social work pedagogy through Merleau-Ponty and critical disability theory.
Lisa Stafford
Postcolonial and Southern Pedagogies
31. No more ‘Blacks in the Back’: Adding more than a ‘splash’ of Black into social work education and practice by drawing on the works of Aileen Moreton-Robinson and others who contribute to Indigenous Standpoint Theory
Jennie Briese and Kelly Menzel
32. Engaged Buddhism, Embodiment, and the Legacy of Joanna Macy
Loretta Pyles
33. Frantz Fanon’s Revolutionary Contribution: An Attitude of Decolonailty as Critical Pedagogy for Social Work
Linda Smith
34. Samkange’s theory of Ubuntu and its contribution to a decolonised social work pedagogy
Jacob Mugumbate
35. The relevance of Gandhism for Social Work Education And Practice
Lata Narayan
Practice methods
36. Teaching community development with Hannah Arendt: Enabling new emancipatory possibilities
Uschi Bay
37. The Transformation and Integration of Society; Developing Social Work Pedagogy through Jürgen Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action
Rúna í Baianstovu and Phillip Ablett
38. Alain Touraine: The politics of collective action
Carolyn Noble and Goetz Ottmann
39. Augusto Boal and Hans George Gadamer: A complimentary relationship toward critical performance pedagogy in social work education.
Jean Carrathurs and Phillip Ablett
40. Critical transformative learning and social work education: Jack Mezirow’s transformative learning theory
Peter Jones
41. bell hooks’ trilogy: Pedagogy for social work supervision
Carolyn Noble
42. Navigating the Politics and Practice of Social Work Research: With Advice from Pierre Bourdieu
Mark Brough, Barbara Adkins and Rod Kippax
43. Stephen Brookfield’s contribution to teaching and practising critical reflection in social work
Christine Morley
