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Anti-oppressive practice is an interdisciplinary approach primarily rooted within the practice of social work that focuses on ending socioeconomic oppression.It requires the practitioner to critically examine the power imbalance inherent in an organizational structure with regards to the larger sociocultural and political context in order to develop strategies for creating an egalitarian ...
Anti-oppressive education is premised on the notion that many traditional and commonsense ways of engaging in "education" actually contribute to oppression in schools and society. It also relies on the notion that many "common sense" approaches to education reform mask or exacerbate oppressive education methods.
Abolitionist teaching, also known as abolitionist pedagogy, is a set of practices and approaches to teaching that emphasize abolishing educational practices considered by its proponents to be inherently problematic and oppressive. [1] The term was coined by education professor and critical theorist Bettina Love. [2]
Kevin Kumashiro is the former dean of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. [1] He was previously a professor of Asian American Studies and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) [1] and is the immediate past president of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) [clarification needed].
Therefore, according to the critical theory, the aim of social work is to emancipate people from oppression and allow a critique of the ideology of "operativity", State law and governance. Critical social work takes a stance against common assumptions about the necessity of work, capitalist labor and managerial systems of control.
The tools the oppressors use are termed "anti-dialogical actions" and the ways the oppressed can overcome them are "dialogical actions". The four anti-dialogical actions include conquest, manipulation, divide and rule, and cultural invasion. The four dialogical actions, on the other hand, are unity, compassion, organization, and cultural synthesis.
The SHARP framework is a tool used to assess and understand the psychological sufferings resulting from oppressive factors, creating awareness and motivating anti-oppressive shifts. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Shaia developed the framework while researching ways to address the context of poverty and oppression during service provision in the United States. [ 5 ]
Anti-psychiatry considers psychiatry a coercive instrument of oppression due to an unequal power relationship between doctor, therapist, and patient or client, and a highly subjective diagnostic process. Involuntary commitment, which can be enforced legally through sectioning, is an important issue in the movement. When sectioned, involuntary ...