Connect Session

Social Work Education as Social Work Practice: Leading then Teaching Critical Conversations

Friday, November 11, 2022

1:15 PM – 2:15 PM

Location: Huntington B

Main Presenter(s)

Warren Graham, LCSW, ACSW, CASAC (he/him/his)

Assistant Dean of Field Education
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, New York, United States

Candice C. Beasley, LCSW-BACS

Clinical Assistant Prof
Tulane University
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, United States

BB

Benjamin Bencomo, DSW, LISW/LCSW

Assistant Professor/BSW Program Coordinator
New Mexico Highlands University
Las Vegas, New Mexico, United States
Kimberly M. Hardy, PhD, MSW, BSW

Associate Professor
Fayetteville State University
Fayetteville,, North Carolina, United States

Provide social work faculty tips on how to facilitate difficult conversations regarding power, privilege, and oppression to develop the classroom into both a safe and brave space for critical thinking and dialogue so that tenets of social justice and human rights can transition from lay to professional considerations.
Train faculty and administration how to reconceptualize our commitment to students by understanding that educating and training emerging social workers is social work practice.
Utilize the skills and values/tenets of the social work profession to transform schools of social work into milieus that embrace diversity whilst being intolerant of internal systemic discrimination / oppression.