basic idea to creat a syllabus

[Orit]

Hi I had one more article that I describe educational program that might help.
Orit Nuttman-Shwartz; Rachel Dekel (2008) Training Students for a Shared Traumatic Reality, Social Work
2008, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 279 - 281


In addition I have several ideas that we have to think whether to include them in the syllabus of the theoretical course
1 – Us and Them concept – psychological and sociological point of view
2- trauma; exposure to on going threat and conflict,
3- traumatized society
4- humiliation ; fear of annihilation, exclusion
5 –social justice
6- negotiation, mediation and bridging
7 – crisis resolution
8 – reconciliation, forgiveness


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To be continue thanks Orit

[Shula]

very important food for thought; not easy to see how to navigate through it, though...
If we start from the first issue- us and them - there is a lot of research on how we all strereotype the other (e.g. Bar-Tal, D. Teichman, Y (2004) Stereotrypes and Prejudice in Conflict, Cambridge Univeristy Press); the issue for us is how to encourage/teach our students how to de-stereotype, though initially even to demonstrate that we do use stereotyping is an achievement in terms of awareness.
Best,
Shula

[Shula]

Hi, all,
Welcome to Sarah Cemyln from Bristol (who works on asylym seekers and travellers in the UK) and to Subhangi Herat from Colombo (who works on issues of internally displaced people and disaster in Sri Lanka) who are now part of the Forum.
I agree with Orit's e-mail which expresses also my unhappiness that members of the forum have not thus far responded to attempts to focus on curriculum building re social work in the context of political conflict.
I have posted to all of you about ten days ago a chapter on the Austrlaian attempt to improve what they offer in the schools of social work about their specific political ocnflict re the impact of the current state of indeigenous people there after 200 years of political conflict, but thus far no one has responded back.
They raised the need to offer differentiated input to students of social work who are indigenous people themselves and to white Austrlaians to enable both groups to work together and understand the context in which they are working.
Shubangi is working now in a context of the impact of the recent very violent conlfict between the Tamils and the Sri Lanka government in her country, where thousands of people have become internally displaced people with no rights and no home of their own almost overnight.
In England we are facing the election to the European Parliament of members of the British National Party who limit membership in their party to white people (whom they call indigenous!!) and have also had 111 local councillors elected on June 4th - this is a clealry racist party, against black, Moselm and Jewish people, yet one which claims the right to be heard as part of the democracy which the country attempts to be.
All of the above call for a social work education response, as well as for social work professional repsonse.
I do look forward to your very early feedback.
Best,
Shula