- Title
- Changing gears: shifting to an environmental perspective in social work education
- Creator
- Gray, Mel; Coates, John
- Relation
- Social Work Education Vol. 34, Issue 5, p. 502-512
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2015.1065807
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- This paper seeks to add to the growing literature on environmental social work education which suggests the need for a fundamental rethinking of the humanistic values and theories informing social work to embrace concerns relating to environmental degradation and climate change. For the most part, social work's interest in the environment to date relates to human needs. Of most concern here is the over-representation of people in poverty and subsistence among those impacted by deforestation and climate injustice. However, even here the emphasis is on the human experience of environmental and climate change when this is an outcome of human actions and structural inequalities. The paper begins with an overview of the theoretical terrain of environmental thought before examining issues in relation to perspective transformation and the implications for under- and post-graduate curriculum development.
- Subject
- values; environmental perspective; social work education; perspective transformation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1306826
- Identifier
- uon:21265
- Identifier
- ISSN:0261-5479
- Rights
- This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Social Work Education on 20/08/2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02615479.2015.1065807
- Language
- eng
- Full Text
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