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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 ...
Critical social work is the application to social work of a critical theory perspective. Critical social work seeks to address social injustices, as opposed to focusing on individualized issues. Critical theories explain social problems as arising from various forms of oppression and injustice in globalized capitalist societies and forms of ...
Teaching: Strier's fields of teaching include poverty, social exclusion, social work with excluded communities, critical and anti-oppressive social work, critical theories, and fatherhood. Research: Principle research area is poverty and social exclusion.
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 ]
Practitioners need to be fully aware of a power balance between service users and providers to work in an anti-oppressive manor. Anti oppressive practice can be condemned as ‘a gloss to help it [social work] to feel better about what is required to do’ (Humphries, 2004, p105).
The worker may begin to understand oppression and marginalization as a systemic problem, not the fault of the individual. [63] Working under an anti-oppression perspective would then allow the social worker to understand the lived, subjective experiences of the individual, as well as their cultural, historical and social background.
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.
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