%0 Journal Article
%T Applied Methods of Teaching about Oppression and Diversity to Graduate Social Work Students: A Case Example of Digital Stories
%A Christine A. Walsh
%A Micheal L. Shier
%A Kathleen C. Sitter
%A Jackie D. Sieppert
%J Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
%D 2010
%I Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
%X Social work education accreditation requires the completion of course work specifically around issues related to oppression and diversity within society. Educators offer a range of approaches to engage students in discussion about oppression and diversity from academic content and structured curriculum to reflective practice and experiential learning opportunities. The following describes a Master of Social Work course on oppression, social justice, and diversity offered at a western Canadian university that utilized a mixed method of teaching practices ¨C including the creation of digital stories by the students in small groups. Beyond this description of the course content, studentsĄŻ insight into the impact of using digital stories for their own learning and application to professional practice around issues of oppression and diversity is presented and discussed.Pour e tre agre e  comme travailleur social, il faut avoir suivi des cours axe s sur les questions dĄŻoppression et de diversite  au sein de la socie te . Pour faire participer les e tudiants, les e ducateurs emploient diverses me thodes qui vont des discussions a  partir dĄŻun contenu universitaire a  un programme dĄŻenseignement structure  et utilisent une approche re flective ainsi que des occasions dĄŻapprentissage expe rientiel. LĄŻarticle traite dĄŻun cours de mai trise en travail social sur lĄŻoppression, la justice sociale et la diversite , offert dans une universite  de lĄŻOuest du Canada, qui utilise une me thode combine e de pratiques dĄŻenseignement, y compris la cre ation dĄŻhistoires digitales par les e tudiants en petits groupes. En plus dĄŻen de crire le contenu, lĄŻarticle pre sente un aperc u de lĄŻimpact de lĄŻutilisation de ces histoires sur lĄŻapprentissage des e tudiants et de son application aux pratiques professionnelles entourant les questions dĄŻoppression et de diversite .
%K social work education
%K oppression
%K diversity
%K digital storytelling
%U http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cjsotl_rcacea/vol1/iss2/3