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Scholarly Approach - Coggle Diagram
Scholarly Approach
Values
Community
True meaning in life and a sense of purpose comes from our ability to connect with and contribute to our community
Justice
Social justice seeks to maximize the benefits to all given a systems based understanding of our work and practice, and does so equitably.
Reciprocity
Community engaged projects should benefit all involved and not just the institution which holds most of the power
Practicability
Work should be simple, practical, and easy to integrate, even if difficult to set up.
Description of me
Organizer
The power to achieve any kind of social change is dependent on our ability to organize and work cooperatively towards social justice
Community Engaged
Work is most practical when it benefits the larger community and is done with the non-dichotomous integration of our mutually agreed upon goals.
Activist
I am someone with a passion for maximizing benefits to clients, students, and community partners. In any decision regarding the use of my power, my activism around social justice informs my processes.
Practitioner
I'm a practitioner of social work and it informs how I teach, provide therapy, and advocate for causes I believe in.
Academic
Service
Service is my secondary passion, but it primarily serves to enhance teaching through networks, community connections, and academic excellence
Research
My tertiary passion, but one which has always remained an enigma for me- a set of strategies to solve large complex problems for a like minded audience. Now that I've connected my passion for solving social worker burnout through systems, I see the connection to my teaching and service more clearly.
Teaching
Teaching is my primary passion, but as a practice it deserves appropriate evaluation, which is how it connects to research
Scholastic History
Much of my publication has been on community involved projects or reflective pieces on successful projects done by my students. My newest venture aims to take the best of these approaches, with a new eye towards critical reflection and a desire to find the best way to motivate social justice oriented social workers.
Current Interests
My current passion is to study the impact of my curriculum on students doing macro projects. Those projects will be analyzed in the context of curriculum, power dynamics, history, and student factors. The goal is to ultimately see if the education is producing social workers who are not "institutionalized" and are willing/capable of attacking social injustice in the systems where they work.