Resisting Curriculum Violence and Developing Antioppressive, Trauma-Informed, Culturally Sustaining Approaches for Social Work Education and Practice

Abstract

Abstract Social work programs have long committed to the integration of social justice and cultural diversity. This professional commitment to social justice and stated affirmation that diversity, culture, and the social environment shape human experiences is threaded through program curricula. However social work education does not consistently incorporate an educational framework for integrating culturally sustaining pedagogies that synthesize critical inquiry and culturally responsive learning opportunities more fully ingrained with antioppressive social justice concepts or culturally responsive pedagogies that fully integrate the diversity of social work students and the individuals and communities they will serve. This chapter draws from multiple professional fields to (a) provide an integrative overview of current approaches to social justice education in social work and (b) identify strategies to incorporate antioppressive, trauma-informed, culturally sustaining pedagogies into social work education.

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