Gender and Diversity Training
| Degree programme | Social Work |
| Subject area | Social Work & Health |
| Type of degree | Bachelor Full-time Summer Semester 2025 |
| Course unit title | Gender and Diversity Training |
| Course unit code | 048502041202 |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Type of course unit (compulsory, optional) | Compulsory |
| Teaching hours per week | 2 |
| Year of study | 2025 |
| Level of the course / module according to the curriculum | |
| Number of ECTS credits allocated | 2 |
| Name of lecturer(s) | Matthew RANDALL |
Prerequisites for Incomings: Basic knowledge of Social Work (or related programmes such as Social Pedagogy)
Gender:
Exploring and reflecting on our individual biographies in relation to gender.
Exploring and reflecting on the broader concepts of gender identity.
Diversity:
Introduction to the concept of diversity and the categories of difference.
Exploring and reflecting on prejudices, assumptions and value systems in relation to these categories of difference.
Exploring and reflecting on how categories of difference are linked to social structures of power and privilege, focussing on our individual biographies.
Exploring and reflecting on oppression in personal and professional contexts.
The students
are able to recognise the existence and effects of gender and other individual categories of difference in a pluralistic society
are able to critically reflect on these in the context of social work
have understood the central importance of reflection in a personal and professional context.
Mixed methods
Presentations in small groups
None
- Adams, Maurianne et al. (2016): Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice. 3rd Ed.
- Banks, Sarah; Nøhr, Kirsten (2013): Practising Social Work Ethics Around the World - Cases and Commentaries.
- Butler, Judith (1999): Gender Trouble.
- Butler, Judith (2004): Undoing Gender.
- Christie, Alastair (2006). Negotiating the uncomfortable intersections between gender and professional identities in social work. Critical Social Policy, 26(2), 390–411.
- Dominelli, Lena (2002): Feminist Social Work Theory and Practice.
- Dominelli, Lena (2017): Anti-Racist Social Work. 4th Ed.
- Moon, Jenny (2001): Reflection in Higher Education Learning.
- Ploesser, Melanie & Mecheril, Paul (2011): Neglect – recognition – deconstruction: Approaches to otherness in social work, ISW 2012 55, p. 794-808
- Randall, Matthew, & Böhler, Doris. (2012). Diversity training and social work: An insight into theory, methodology and practice. ERIS Web Journal, 1/2012, pp. 15 - 25.
- Smethurst, Chris (2013): Gender and reflective practice, p. 101-113, IN Knott, Christine; Terry, Scragg (eds.): (2013): Reflective practice in social work. 3. ed.
- Thompson, Neil (2011): Promoting Equality: Working with Diversity and Difference.
- Thompson, Neil (2016): Anti-Discriminatory Practice: Equality, Diversity and Social Justice. 6th Ed.
Face-to-face