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Animating Pedagogies of Discomfort and Affect for Anti-Racism and Decolonizing Aims in Social Work Education
- Source :
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Teaching in Higher Education . 2024 29(5):1253-1266. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- This dialogic composition captures the interconnected experiences of two racialized doctoral students co-teaching a critical social work practice course in a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) program parallel to undertaking a doctoral independent study on anti-racism and decolonizing curriculum and pedagogies. The undergraduate course sought to articulate the distinct desires of and connections between anti-racism and decolonization by drawing on pedagogies of discomfort and affect to support students in engaging difficult knowledges. This paper animates the layered entanglements of multiple actors: two doctoral students, a BSW student, and a faculty member. To capture these layered understandings and constitution of social work education through critical reflection on teaching practices, we weave together our various voices as a way of making visible the need for relationality within higher education. Through our experiences of holistic (un/re)learning, we reflect on tensions, resistance, and (im)possibilities that emerge when curriculum, pedagogies, and bodies collide.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1356-2517 and 1470-1294
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Teaching in Higher Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1427692
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Descriptive
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2022.2129962