Anti-oppressive practice in social work and community development - RDD121

• Title: Anti-oppressive practice in social work and community development
• Guaranteed by: Department of Theological Ethics (27-TE)
• Faculty: Protestant Theological Faculty
• Actual: from 2016 to 2017
• Semester: summer
• Points: 5
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:135/0, MC [HS]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: combined
• Teaching methods: combined
• Guarantor: doc. Jindřich Halama, Dr.

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Věra Fritzová (25.07.2016)

Description of the Study Unit
This placement must offer challenging work with users and groups/communities in which the student gains
professional expertise in guiding work processes towards social inclusion. The key contents may include work with
adults, families, elderly people or youth at risk. Issues may include (for example) unemployment, marginalisation,
or substance abuse.

The aims of the study unit are that the student:
- knows how to apply the processes of working with people
- know how to use the methods of participatory social work or community development especially
working with adults
- is able to adopt different roles and use different methods in professional practice with users
- is able to reflect on the work processes and critically evaluate own working methods and those of the
placement organisation
- is able to reflect on personal and professional learning and the development of own professional identity
- Is able to link the processes and methods to the practice of diaconal social work and to the life of the
church(es)

The contents of the study unit include:
- Work processes and methods
- Supervision in social work practice
- Personal and professional evaluation & reflection
- Personal and professional growth
- Reflection and report writing in professional work
Process of the Study Unit
Week 7
Mag. Tony Addy (Responsible Teacher)
Placement preparation & guidelines (2 hours)
Week 8-12, 14-17
Mag. Tony Addy ( Responsible teacher) & Placement Supervisor
260 hours practical work in the placement

Week 18
8 hours placement feedback session, responsible teacher
Week 19
Placement report assignment, 10 pages, 2 cr.

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Věra Fritzová (25.07.2016)

Basic literature and study aids:

Kjell Nordstokke: Liberating Diaconia, 2011, Tapir Academic Press (144 pages)

Dalyrmple, J. & Burke, B. Anti-Oppressive Practice, Social Care & the Law, 2006, Maidenhead, Open University Press

Recommended literature and study aids:

Woodhead, L. et al., (2009) Religions in the Modern World, London, Routledge

Davie, G., (2007) Sociology of Religion, London SAGE

Teaching methods

Last update: Mgr. Věra Fritzová (25.07.2016)

Consultations:

8 hrs. worship life preparatory work;

16 hrs. bible study preparatory;

(in total 24 hours)

Individual work:

111 hours distance learning; during that time analytically commenting on Fronter a book and at least five analytical comments on other student’s analysis - discussion supervised and controlled by responsible teacher; reading for the written exam.