To be successful with this assignment please read the full directions for the paper that is due in Module 13. Anti Oppressive Practice Final Paper
This is a working document that will help build your final paper. You may be informal but should attend to each of the prompts here in your write-up:
Identify the area of practice you plan to examine from this anti-oppressive lens/provide a rationale for why this is a good fit for you/for this paper. Sketch out some of the broad ideas that you want to focus on/how you’ll do that – this can be informal/bullet points, etc.
identify three sources that help you to define and expand upon your understanding of what it means to be an anti-oppressive social worker.
Provide an APA citation of each of these sources (can be a book, article, appropriate website, podcast, etc.) and
provide a summary of how each source will help you write your final paper.
Write out your working definitions of power, privilege, and oppression (using sources as appropriate)
Your instructor will provide feedback meant to help you create the best possible final paper for the course!
While each student will submit an assignment that is unique to their chosen topical area, it can be helpful to see examples of excellent work submitted by other students. This sample assignment
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**Final Paper instructions**
This is a professionally written, concise, and thorough examination and application of ideas and knowledge gained through your reading, discussion, and research in this course.
Your final paper will be approximately four to six pages in length, will adhere to APA formatting and standards for academic writing and presentation, and will be the culmination of your own reflection, research, and writing.
In this paper please address the following:
What is anti-oppressive practice?
Define oppression, privilege, and power and how anti-oppression is a response to privilege and power.
Why is it important for our profession to move forward understanding not only what this means but how to engage in it? Here it would be pertinent to provide definitions and to connect ideas with professional ethics and values.
You should also include some discussion/understanding of the history/legacy of our profession that has not always/does not always mirror anti-oppressive practices: How has social work engaged in system oppression?
Select one area of practice that is important to you and briefly examine how the practice has been complicit in oppression and injustice;
Provide a discussion of what anti-oppression would look like in this same space. Choose a population/practice space that is important to you professionally.
Identify three ways in which you will engage in anti-oppressive practice; connect this to learning in the course/readings/modules.
Your paper should utilize a minimum of seven sources inclusive of those found within the course and those you’ve researched on your own. A mix of journal articles, reflections, opinion essays, books, etc. is appropriate for this paper.
