Postmodern social work : reflective practice and education
Kenneth James Moffatt (Author)
"Postmodern Social Work attempts to reconcile postmodern thinkers with the realities of teaching social work to diverse student populations in a precarious era. Moffatt advocates an ideal of reflective practice that allows social workers to combine direct experience, social welfare, and social justice. Through a series of interlocking essays focused on the theoretical underpinnings of reflective practice in the context of social work education, he explores the implications of postmodern theory for social work practice. Drawing on thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Julia Kristeva, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari, Moffatt lays out a path forward for reflective social work, providing new ways of thinking that collapse old categories and integrate direct practice with community engagement and social analysis. Postmodern Social Work offers an approach to practice and teaching that considers the shifting landscape of social change while remaining true to social work's primary concerns of inclusion and justice." -- Provided by publisher
233 pages ; 23 cm
9780231128001, 9780231128018, 0231128002, 0231128010
1084630294
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Discourse in the Context of Precariousness2. Reflective Social Work Practice: The Social and the Self3. Reflective Practice as a Form of Consciousness4. The Social Work Classroom as a Play of Dynamic Elements5. The Dispossessed Self6. Arts-Based Reflection7. Reflective Postmodern Social Work in the Context of PrecariousnessWorks CitedIndex