Knowledge and Inquiry: Re-Theorizing Social Work

1.5 credits · Graduate

Takes as its starting point the idea that responsible and effective professional and scholarly practice begins with a critical examination of how relations of power shape knowledge production. Over the term, assumptions underlying the creation of knowledge and different approaches to knowing authoritatively are investigated. Questions of 'how we come to know' and 'how we go about asking' are explored through poststructural, postcolonial and critical race lenses.