LibGuides: SWR-365: Week 2 Resources

Week 2 Required Resources

Textbook

Your course textbook, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, can be accessed via the Getting Started module in your course.

Schriver, J. M. (2020). Human behavior and the social environment: Shifting paradigms in essential knowledge for social work practice (7th ed.). Allyn & Bacon.

Read Chapter 2: Traditional and Alternative Paradigms.
This chapter covers how to use paradigms for understanding human behavior and the social environment.

Articles

Bending Gender, Ending Gender: Theoretical Foundations for Social Work Practice with the Transgender Community
Burdge, B. J. (2007). Bending gender, ending gender: Theoretical foundations for social work practice with the transgender community. Social Work, 52(3), 243-250.
This article discusses gender-based oppression and the resulting psychosocial difficulties experienced by many transgendered individuals. The discussion advances a critical analysis of the dominant gender paradigm using two alternative theoretical perspectives on gender-queer theory and social constructionism.
The Biosocial Approach to Human Development, Behavior, and Health Across the Life Course
Harris, K. M., & McDade, T. W. (2018). The biosocial approach to human development, behavior, and health across the life course. The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences: RSF, 4(4), 2–26. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.4.01
This journal article presents a summary of the biosocial approach to human development and behavior.
8 Aboriginal Ways of Learning
NSW Department of Education. (2007). 8 Aboriginal Ways of Learning. 8 Ways. https://www.8ways.online/
An indigengous model of understanding and knowing the world.
Indigenisation, (de)Colonisation, and Whiteness: Dismantling Social Work Education
Ryan, J., & Ivelja, J. (2023). Indigenisation, (de)colonisation, and whiteness: Dismantling social work education. Australian Social Work, 76(3), 300–314. https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2023.2203116
This review aims to explore and reflect upon current literature that addresses western-centric social work pedagogical practice in Australia and aims to incorporate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander epistemologies using a positional and narrative lens.
A Framework for Teaching Community Practice
Thomas, M. L., Netting, F. E., & O’Connor, M. K. (2011). A framework for teaching community practice. Journal of Social Work Education, 47(2), 337–355. https://doi.org/10.5175/JSWE.2011.200900081
Drawing from social work's rich tradition of community practice this article provides a practical aid to understand the variety of strategies currently used by instructors and students.
Challenging Anti-Black Racism in HBSE: Using Critical Race Theory to Interrogate Traditional Developmental Paradigms
Zuckerman, R., Jenkins, M., Albritton, T., Taylor, E., & Lippold, M. (2022). Challenging anti-black racism in HBSE: Using critical race theory to interrogate traditional developmental paradigms. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 42(2/3), 190-206. https://doi.org/10.1080/08841233.2022.2069203
This article will expand commonly used frameworks (e.g., ecological systems theory, life course theory) to consider how CRT helps us understand the impact of race and racism on human development, and specifically on the development of Black youth.

Week 2 Optional Resources

Bridging Indigenous and Western Methods in Social Science Research
Quinn, A. L. (2022). Bridging Indigenous and Western methods in social science research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069221080301
A method for how grounded theory can be used to bridge Western and Indigenous approaches to research, and how these epistemologies may complement each other.