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Diversity and Pluralism - EJ493770
12/95/

ERIC TITLE NUMBER: EJ493770 AUTHOR: Van-Soest,-Dorothy


TITLE: Social Work Education for Multicultural Practice
and Social Justice Advocacy: A Field Study of How
Students Experience the Learning Process.

YEAR PUBLISHED: 1994
JOURNAL: Journal-of-Multicultural-Social-Work; v3 n1
p17-28 1994

DESRIPTORS:Consciousness-Raising; Higher-Education;
Professional-Education; Self-Concept; Student-Attitudes
*Attitude-Change; *Graduate-Students;
*Learning-Experience; *Multicultural-Education;
*Student-Development

ABSTRACT: Students in a graduate social work course on
cultural diversity and societal oppression kept a journal
during the course and completed questionnaires one year
later. Analysis of journal entries and questionnaire
responses focused on student self-image and social
identity, the process of attitude change and increasing
awareness, and influences on the learning environment by
professor and other students. (SV)

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