Social work students learning to use their experiential knowledge of recovery : an existential and emancipatory perspective
Social work students learning to use their experiential knowledge of recovery : an existential and emancipatory perspective
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Aims: To understand the features of experiential knowledge with recovery and the process of social work students learning to use their experiential knowledge of recovery from an existential and emancipatory perspective.
Methods: A participatory action research design was used in an applied university social work department in the Netherlands to develop a new curriculum for students using their experiential knowledge. Students were invited to disclose and share their personal experiences of recovery in the classroom and practice.
Results: Experiential knowledge of recovery can be articulated as knowledge of finding a new balance in dualities of several existential themes. Social work students shared their experiences in a reflexive way and transcended their individual experiences to develop a critical subjectivity. They experienced their learning process as emancipatory and destigmatizing, but shame came up as a recurring theme. Making use of experiential knowledge sometimes conflicted with expectations of the social worker as a detached professional expert.
Conclusion: Experiential knowledge of recovery can be articulated as knowledge of living with existential dualities. Profiling oneself as a social worker with existential knowledge of recovery has paradoxical aspects: it may weaken shame and combat stigmatization, but may reinforce stigma as well.
Organisatie | Hogeschool Windesheim |
Afdeling | Domein Gezondheid en Welzijn |
Lectoraat | GGZ en Samenleving |
Gepubliceerd in | Social Work Education Taylor and Francis, Philadelphia, Vol. 38, Uitgave: 4, Pagina's: 453-469 |
Datum | 2018-10-24 |
Type | Artikel |
DOI | 10.1080/02615479.2018.1538335 |
Taal | Engels |