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Teaching Disability Studies to Social Work Students - CeDR Symposium

Date: 20-21 May 2009 Time: 12.00 -12.00pm

CeDR is hosting a two day symposium on teaching disability studies to social work students.

The aim of the symposium is to share and develop ideas about teaching disability issues within social work education from a disability studies perspective. Central themes are

What is the disability studies curriculum for social work?
Threshold concepts in disability studies
Pedagogical connections between disability studies and social work
The role of disabled and non-disabled people in social work education
Overcoming the alienation of parasite professions
The art of the possible: social model practice
Mainstreaming the social model in social work education.

The symposium is part of a broader stream of work concerned with the teaching of disability issues in higher education currently being developed by CeDR.

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Who can attend: Anyone