It Started with a Tweet Calling White Social Work Educators in: Building a Professional Learning Community

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Professional Learning Community, anti-racist pedagogy, practice community, reflective practice, social work faculty, social media, Twitter

Abstract

This narrative documents the beginning early stages of a collective called #SWEDUACTS. We are four White, female social work educators who over the last year have led the planning of a teach-in event held in October of 2020 and subsequent monthly drop-in, peer-led Professional Learning Community meetings drawing dozens of participants over the past nine months. We reflect here on how engaging in the planning and delivery of the drop-in sessions helps ground our commitment to anti-racist pedagogy as well as facilitates the capacity of other social work instructors to build their own capabilities as anti-racist social work pedagogues.

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Lauri Goldkind, Fordham University

Lauri Goldkind, PhD, LMSW is Associate Professor, Graduate School of Social Service, Fordham University, New York, NY (goldkind@fordham.edu).

Elspeth Slayter, Salem State University

Elspeth Slayter, PhD, LMSW is Professor, School of Social Work, Salem State University (eslayter@salemstate.edu).

Jennifer Ann Parga, University of Southern California

Jennifer Ann Parga, MSW is Associate Professor, USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (jparga@usc.edu).

Pat Shelly, University at Buffalo

Patricia Shelly, MSW is Director, Community Engagement & Expansion, School of Social Work, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (pashelly@buffalo.edu).

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2023-11-29

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Goldkind, L., Slayter, E., Parga, J. A., & Shelly, P. (2023). It Started with a Tweet Calling White Social Work Educators in: Building a Professional Learning Community. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 29(3), 69–84. Retrieved from https://reflectionsnarrativesofprofessionalhelping.org/index.php/Reflections/article/view/2024

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