ABSTRACT
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
part I|266 pages
Key foundational concepts
chapter 3|13 pages
Reaching back to go forward
chapter 4|13 pages
Lifting the veil of our own consciousness
chapter 5|13 pages
Reaching higher ground
chapter 6|12 pages
A prophet without honor
chapter 9|12 pages
Theodor Adorno
chapter 11|12 pages
Teaching democracy in the social work and human service classroom
chapter 13|12 pages
‘A social work counter-pedagogy yet-to-come’
chapter 14|11 pages
From privileged irresponsibility to shared responsibility for social injustice
chapter 15|13 pages
Critical social work education as democratic paideía
chapter 17|12 pages
Henry Giroux’s vision of critical pedagogy
chapter 19|10 pages
Giorgio Agamben
chapter 20|12 pages
Avishai Margalit’s concept of decency
part II|90 pages
Specific applications
chapter 25|14 pages
Critical (animal) social work
chapter 28|12 pages
Embedding the queer and embracing the crisis
chapter 29|14 pages
The panopticon effect
part |64 pages
Postcolonial and Southern pedagogies
chapter 31|13 pages
No more ‘Blacks in the Back’
chapter 32|11 pages
Healing justice in the social work classroom
chapter 33|13 pages
Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary contribution
part |99 pages
Practice methods