Anti-Racist Practice

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Anti-Racist Practice

Speaker: Dr Prospera Tedam, SFHEA. Assistant Professor in Social Work, United Arab Emirates University.

By North East London Social Work Teaching Partnership

Date and time

Wed, 16 Jun 2021 01:30 - 03:30 PDT

Location

Online

About this event

The aim of this training is not to convince people that racism exists; it is education designed to develop and enhance knowledge, skills, and abilities in social workers to recognise and take steps individually and collectively to challenge racism and other inequalities in organisations, and in their work with people from a range of backgrounds. During the session, participants will be supported to make links between the content and the professional capabilities framework (PCF), Knowledge and Skills Statement relevant to their specialist area (KSS) and Social Work Education (SWE) Standards.

4D2P is a new framework introduced in Dr Prospera Tedam's book on Anti-Oppressive Practice (Tedam, 2020). This framework is unique in that it offers practitioners the opportunity to not only identify where racism has occurred but also examine how they might disrupt racism through action of some form.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Develop and enhance understanding of racism and anti-racism in social work.
  • Critically reflect on your own previous and current anti-racist practice.
  • Understand and identify skills needed to confront racism.
  • Examine the 4D2P Framework for anti-racist practice.

Please note that the link for this session will be sent out two working days before the event. Please ensure that you type the correct email address when booking the ticket.

This event is open to student social workers from London Metropolitan University and University of East London.

Dr Prospera Tedam is a qualified social worker registered with Social Work England and has practice experience of about 25 years. A social work academic with a teaching career spanning over 15 years in higher education institutions in the United Kingdom, Prospera has taught social work at the Open University, University of Northampton and latterly, Anglia Ruskin University where she retains a Visiting Fellow role. In August 2018, Prospera joined the social work department as Assistant Professor in Social Work at United Arab Emirates University.

Prospera's research has focused on culturally sensitive social work, equality and diversity, anti-oppressive practice, faith-based abuse and the experiences of Black African social work students in practice learning.

Her recent book introduced the 4D2P Framework for identifying, understanding and disrupting oppression in social work encounters. The aim of the framework is to assist social workers to understand the steps through which they can evaluate their own non-oppressive practice on an ongoing basis.

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