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Diversity reflection: an approach towards provoking diverse thinking within social work and social pedagogy training

Koglek, R.; (2024) Diversity reflection: an approach towards provoking diverse thinking within social work and social pedagogy training. International Journal of Social Pedagogy , 13 (1) , Article 8. 10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2024.v13.x.008. Green open access

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Abstract

Teaching diversity in social pedagogy and social work training is vital for promoting inclusivity, cultural competence, empathy and effective practice. It supports students in their personal development and equips them to navigate today’s interconnected world. Inspired by bell hooks’s Teaching to Transgress: Education as the practice of freedom, this article describes diversity reflection – an approach that invites students’ and teachers’ diverse thinking – and how it can be implemented in preparation for and delivery of diversity training for future social pedagogues and social workers. The article also explores why it is important to embrace diversity as an aspect in professional reflection. It outlines how such reflection should take place on a micro, mezzo and macro level. Finally, it introduces further aspects of teaching diversity, including the need for lecturers to exercise professional and personal reflection and how the teacher’s diversity influences preparation and delivery of diversity training.

Type: Article
Title: Diversity reflection: an approach towards provoking diverse thinking within social work and social pedagogy training
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2024.v13.x.008
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2024.v13.x.0...
Language: English
Additional information: © 2024, Robert Koglek. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords: bell hooks, transgression, diversity training, diversity-reflexivity, teaching diversity, social pedagogy
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10195310
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