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3. Please consider the availability (and lack of availability) of health care in your country.
Now please
a) define structural violence (using our readings and also an excellent summary of Farmer and Sen's views on this by Kathleen Ho: http://projects.essex.ac.uk/ehrr/V4N2/ho.pdf)
b) give an example of structural violence in your country (supported by data)
c) present your dream of what a globally-informed social worker could do about that example (remember to use the readings).
Now please
a) define structural violence (using our readings and also an excellent summary of Farmer and Sen's views on this by Kathleen Ho: http://projects.essex.ac.uk/ehrr/V4N2/ho.pdf)
b) give an example of structural violence in your country (supported by data)
c) present your dream of what a globally-informed social worker could do about that example (remember to use the readings).
2. Please go to and listen: http://www.ted.com/talks/shabana_basij_rasikh_dare_to_educate_afghan_girls.html
Now go her school's website: http://www.sola-afghanistan.org/.
Now suppose you were invited to be a global social worker at her school and you are asked to use your social work practice skills to help those girls who seem to be struggling with learning or behavior there. Now imagine that your client is a 10 year old girl who is so extremely quiet and compliant that it is hard for her to speak up in class and even to write about her own opinions. Please write about how you would:
a) handle the problem that your girl client is from a very different culture than your own
b) evaluate what problems might be affecting the girl's learning and behavior (family, community, for instance) and how you might help her and her family.
Remember to cite your sources in terms of readings for our class about the impact of culture and family life on children's behavior.
c) how does this example represent a global issue in terms of women's equality, and how do the difficulties women have in being educated contribute to the problem of global poverty?
Now go her school's website: http://www.sola-afghanistan.org/.
Now suppose you were invited to be a global social worker at her school and you are asked to use your social work practice skills to help those girls who seem to be struggling with learning or behavior there. Now imagine that your client is a 10 year old girl who is so extremely quiet and compliant that it is hard for her to speak up in class and even to write about her own opinions. Please write about how you would:
a) handle the problem that your girl client is from a very different culture than your own
b) evaluate what problems might be affecting the girl's learning and behavior (family, community, for instance) and how you might help her and her family.
Remember to cite your sources in terms of readings for our class about the impact of culture and family life on children's behavior.
c) how does this example represent a global issue in terms of women's equality, and how do the difficulties women have in being educated contribute to the problem of global poverty?
1. Please read the following summary of Amartya Sen's key ideas on Freedom (if you don't have access to his book, Development as Freedom): http://people.wku.edu/jan.garrett/ethics/senethic.htm. Consider in particular the five types of freedoms he identifies. Now choose one of those freedoms that you believe is most important, as well as a country in need of advancing that freedom, and describe how a global social worker can advance that freedom in your country, using examples from our readings and class discussions (feel free to add other resources as well).
Hello everyone and welcome to our Blog for Global Social Work, 2013! Please feel free to post on here not just your responses to our midterm, but also news from your countries or other events and resources for our class.
We all benefit from the richness of your experiences -- and thank you for communicating in English!
Katherine
We all benefit from the richness of your experiences -- and thank you for communicating in English!
Katherine
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