Information on individual educational components (ECTS-Course descriptions) per semester

  
Degree programme:Bachelor Social Work Part-time extended
Type of degree:FH Bachelor´s Degree Programme
 Part-time extended
 Summer Semester 2023
  

Course unit titleGender and Diversity Training
Course unit code048502041202
Language of instructionEnglish
Type of course unit (compulsory, optional)Compulsory
Semester when the course unit is deliveredSummer Semester 2023
Teaching hours per week2
Year of study2023
Level of course unit (e.g. first, second or third cycle)First Cycle (Bachelor)
Number of ECTS credits allocated2
Name of lecturer(s)Matthew RANDALL


Prerequisites and co-requisites

Prerequisites for Incomings: Basic knowledge of Social Work (or related programmes such as Social Pedagogy)

Course content
Gender:
• Exploring and reflecting on our individual biographies in relation to gender.
• Exploring and reflecting on the broader concepts of gender identity.
Diversity:
• Introduction to the concept of diversity and the categories of difference.
• Exploring and reflecting on prejudices, assumptions and value systems in relation to these difference categories.
• Exploring and reflecting on how categories of difference are linked to structures of societal power and privilege, with a focus on our individual biographies.
• Exploring and reflecting on oppression in personal and professional environments.
Learning outcomes
The students
• are able to recognize the presence and impact of gender and other individual categories of difference in a pluralistic society
• are able to critically reflect on these in the context of social work
• have understood the central importance of reflection in personal and professional contexts.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Mixed methods

Assessment methods and criteria

Presentations in small groups

Comment

None

Recommended or required reading
  • Adams, Maurianne et al. (2016): Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice. 3rd Ed.
  • Banks, Sarah; Nøhr, Kirsten (2013): Practising Social Work Ethics Around the World - Cases and Commentaries.
  • Butler, Judith (1999): Gender Trouble.
  • Butler, Judith (2004): Undoing Gender. 
  • Christie, Alastair (2006). Negotiating the uncomfortable intersections between gender and professional identities in social work. Critical Social Policy, 26(2), 390–411.
  • Dominelli, Lena (2002): Feminist Social Work Theory and Practice.
  • Dominelli, Lena (2017): Anti-Racist Social Work. 4th Ed. 
  • Moon, Jenny (2001): Reflection in Higher Education Learning.
  • Ploesser, Melanie & Mecheril, Paul (2011): Neglect – recognition – deconstruction: Approaches to otherness in social work, ISW 2012 55, p. 794-808
  • Randall, Matthew, & Böhler, Doris. (2012). Diversity training and social work: An insight into theory, methodology and practice. ERIS Web Journal, 1/2012, pp. 15 - 25.
  • Smethurst, Chris (2013): Gender and reflective practice, p. 101-113, IN Knott, Christine; Terry, Scragg (eds.): (2013): Reflective practice in social work. 3. ed.
  • Thompson, Neil (2011): Promoting Equality: Working with Diversity and Difference.
  • Thompson, Neil (2016): Anti-Discriminatory Practice: Equality, Diversity and Social Justice. 6th Ed.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face, distance learning)

Face-to-face

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