Field Instructor Training August 20, 2008

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2. 2 Learning Objectives

3. 3 Social Justice: A Core Value of the Social Work Profession

4. 4 What is a just society?

5. 5 Creating a Just Society

6. 6 Capabilities versus Basic Needs Approaches to Justice

7. Capabilities Perspective as a Framework for Social Justice

11. 11 Social Justice: A Core Value of the Social Work Profession It begins with the underlying assumptions we bring to our practice? Do we see the people we serve first as people with strengths, resources, and capacities, or people with deficits, diseases, and disorders? Do we see them as people with fundamental needs that include play, participation, practical reason, control over one�s environment, etc. How do we maximize that? What notions and assumptions do we have about the communities we serve and the capacities of its residents to seek change they desire? Are they places filled with dignity and worth and possibility? It begins with the underlying assumptions we bring to our practice? Do we see the people we serve first as people with strengths, resources, and capacities, or people with deficits, diseases, and disorders? Do we see them as people with fundamental needs that include play, participation, practical reason, control over one�s environment, etc. How do we maximize that? What notions and assumptions do we have about the communities we serve and the capacities of its residents to seek change they desire? Are they places filled with dignity and worth and possibility?