Book chapter
Lifting the veil of our own consciousness: W.E.B. DuBois and transformative pedagogies for social work
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Pedagogies for Social Work, Vol.45(57), pp.45-57
Routledge
2020
Abstract
W.E.B. Du Bois made an extraordinary contribution in the first half of the twentieth century to an activist and intellectual engagement with challenging racism within the USA and internationally. Yet, for much of his life, that contribution was ignored and suppressed within academic sociology and history. Re-centering Du Bois with critical social work pedagogy not only resurrects a foundational voice; it can enable students to recognize the profoundly Eurocentric nature of social work education today. The chapter describes how Du Bois’ theories of the ‘veil’ and double consciousness can be used to situate both standpoint epistemology and critical race theory within a tradition of social work as advocacy and social pedagogy. This chapter details both curriculum content and pedagogical approaches that foreground class, race, gender and other intersectionalities to unsettle neoliberal notions of cultural competence in contemporary social work education using autoethnographic and qualitative research methods within an Australian social work program.
Details
- Title
- Lifting the veil of our own consciousness: W.E.B. DuBois and transformative pedagogies for social work
- Authors
- David Hollinsworth (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast
- Contributors
- Christine Morley (Editor)Phillip Ablett (Editor)Carolyn Noble (Editor)Stephen Cowden (Editor)
- Publication details
- The Routledge Handbook of Critical Pedagogies for Social Work, Vol.45(57), pp.45-57
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2020
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781351002042-4
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451475802621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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