Re-Visioning Social Work Education in the Shadow of Confederate Monuments: A Case Study

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Abstract

In keeping with our commitment to anti-oppressive social justice education and practice, and in the shadow of confederate statues and the specter of white supremacy within the ivory tower, the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work embarked on a process to re-vision ways we approach generalist practice in our MSW Program. Our goal is to live into the values of our NASW Code of Ethics and our educational charges from CSWE, in which we are called to prepare students to engage diversity and difference in practice and advance human rights, social, economic, and environmental justice. This work is in service to the vital role that social workers play in challenging systems of oppression and disrupting white supremacy in our institutions.

Authors

• Travis J. Albritton, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Charity Sneed Watkins, North Carolina Central University

• Allison De Marco, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• JP Przewoanik, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Andrew Heil