Author Description

This book takes the discourse of cooperative learning to new territories. Susan E. Roche, Marty Dewees, and company take a critically reflective look at educational and global human rights philosophy, as well as social work's commitment to social justice. In liberatory teaching and learning, social work educators engage the mechanisms of privilege, power, and authority that inhabit the academic world no less than the practice world. The authors place social work education within a global framework and develop their postmodern educational philosophy around a set of five liberatory principles. These principles question the hierarchies and status-based roles and identities found in social work classrooms and field practica.BSW, MSW, and doctoral educators and students will find helpful case examples illustrating the principles at work. In the final section, the authors discuss the challenges of liberatory education as well as strategies to address them. Council on Social Work Education We are a nonprofit national association representing individual members and graduate and undergraduate programs of professional social work education. Founded in 1952, this partnership of educational and professional institutions, social welfare agencies, and private citizens is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation as the sole accrediting agency for social work education in this country. CSWE Press is a niche publisher that addresses the needs of social work educators. Some of our areas of publishing specialty are -The philosophy, theory, and practice of teaching -The process and evaluation of learning -The organization and structure of social work education -Diversity in all forms in social work practice and education -Social work in multiple contexts