Progressive until graduation? Helping BSW students hold onto anti-oppressive and critical social work practices
Former BSW student: I’m really worried about this job interview. I know they are going to think I am too critical, too passionate, too much. How can I dumb myself down Jennifer? How do I get in the door so I can do the work I want to do? Maybe staying quiet will get me the job I need…maybe I should...
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University of Windsor
2019-05-01
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| description | Former BSW student: I’m really worried about this job interview. I know they are going to think I am too critical, too passionate, too much. How can I dumb myself down Jennifer? How do I get in the door so I can do the work I want to do? Maybe staying quiet will get me the job I need…maybe I should shut up about AOP?
This was part of a conversation I had last week, with a passionate, anti-oppressive and critical former undergraduate student who had been told, on more than one occasion, that she was just “too much” for the ‘mainstream’ social work organizations to which she had been applying for employment. It was not the first time one of my graduates had shared such worries, for many had reported negative workplace reactions to their critical and anti-oppressive stance, nor would it be the last. As the literature reminds us, social workers are now labouring in a post-welfare context where critiques of power, racism, ageism, sexism, heterosexism and ableism will not make ‘best practice’ lists unless they also save money and increase productivity (Baines, 2007; Hugman, 2001). As Donna Baines writes, |
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| spelling | doaj.art-12e327b908e1413ea0e3932e67d047842022-12-22T01:08:48ZengUniversity of WindsorCritical Social Work1543-93722019-05-0111210.22329/csw.v11i2.5820Progressive until graduation? Helping BSW students hold onto anti-oppressive and critical social work practicesJennifer M. Poole0Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Ryerson University, Toronto, ONFormer BSW student: I’m really worried about this job interview. I know they are going to think I am too critical, too passionate, too much. How can I dumb myself down Jennifer? How do I get in the door so I can do the work I want to do? Maybe staying quiet will get me the job I need…maybe I should shut up about AOP? This was part of a conversation I had last week, with a passionate, anti-oppressive and critical former undergraduate student who had been told, on more than one occasion, that she was just “too much” for the ‘mainstream’ social work organizations to which she had been applying for employment. It was not the first time one of my graduates had shared such worries, for many had reported negative workplace reactions to their critical and anti-oppressive stance, nor would it be the last. As the literature reminds us, social workers are now labouring in a post-welfare context where critiques of power, racism, ageism, sexism, heterosexism and ableism will not make ‘best practice’ lists unless they also save money and increase productivity (Baines, 2007; Hugman, 2001). As Donna Baines writes,https://ojs.uwindsor.ca/index.php/csw/article/view/5820 |
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