Motivation to Teach Social Action:
I teach two courses that have social action components, but I think they are a little stale. I'd like to more fully integrate social action into the courses and consider ways to make it less abstract and more experiential and meaningful for the students.
Course Description:
The course focuses on developing leadership skills to facilitate anti-oppressive processes for change through deliberate, thoughtful, and strategic planning, communication, and intervention. Students will learn approaches to community organizing and development, organizational management and leadership, and policy advocacy. Within these change processes, students will develop skills and strategies to work with diverse populations, understanding and negotiating power dynamics, and critically self-evaluating themselves and their positionalities within and throughout the change process. [1]
Taught By:
Michael Massey
Assistant Professor
Social Work
Catholic University
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