Environmental Sustainability and Social Work: A Rural Australian Evaluation of Incorporating Eco-Social Work in Field Education

Crawford, Fran; Agustine, Savana Sabine; Earle, Leah; Kuyini, Ahmed Bawa; Luxford, Yoni; Babacan, Hürriyet

doi:10.1080/02615479.2015.1074673

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“…For example, Molyneux (2010) contended that action research is needed to explore the practical realities of ecosocial work, or else it risks remaining peripheral to the profession. Crawford et al (2015, p. 595) supported this idea, concluding that ecosocial work is more ‘conceptual’ than ‘actual’ in the context of field education. Furthermore, McKinnon (2013) cast light on the barriers that impede practitioners from incorporating ecosocial work into the major forms of practice.…”

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Raising awareness of transformative ecosocial work: Participatory action research with Australian practitioners

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This article reports on Participatory Action Research with social work practitioners who collaboratively explored the effects on professional practice when practitioners raise their awareness of an ecosocial work approach. Although contemporary research in the profession has contributed to the ongoing development of ecosocial work, there is a notable lack of collaboration with social work practitioners. Using a transformative ecosocial work model of practice, researchers together with social workers from a range of practice contexts met as co‐inquirers to plan, implement and evaluate ecosocial work interventions. As part of a larger international study, this article reports on research outcomes within the Australian context. Overall, results indicate that practitioners incorporated interventions across personal, individual, group and organisational levels of practice, but were constrained by structural elements at broader levels. Continuing the development of ecosocial work requires further collaborative exploration with practitioners, which takes into consideration communities and broader social and political systems. Key Practitioner Messages: • This research endeavours to contribute to the evidence‐base for progressing transformative ecosocial work in professional practice; • Using Participatory Action Research (PAR), this research was done in collaboration with social work practitioners as co‐inquirers to develop ecosocial work interventions; • A range of ecosocial work interventions were implemented at the personal, individual, group and organisational levels.

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“…Some of the literature I reviewed used open ended and closed ended surveys to identify themes and basic demographics of communities to further understand the relationship that gender, income and social positions have in conjunction with people's ability to adapt to climate change (Arsenault, Azam, & Ahmad, 2015;Crawford et al, 2015). A mixed method approach allows researchers to gain greater depth into the phenomena of interest using triangulation.…”

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Climate crisis and social work: lack of climate crisis education in social work curriculum

Zaman¹

2021

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This paper argues that social work curriculum ignores the pressing matter of the ongoing global climate crisis. Using the theoretical frameworks of anti-racism and anti-colonialism, I propose four ways to deal with this curricular gap in social work, which are the following: 1) to insert ethical obligations on the part of social workers to address climate change and environmental justice within the social work code of ethics, 2) to expand the person-in-environment focus to include nature and environmental justice, 3) to embrace a transformative learning paradigm, and 4) to implement a mandatory course on natural disaster management.

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“…Linking social work and environmental topics can lead to ecojustice and sustainability projects. Ecosocial work is a growing area that is drawing attention to conservation of the natural world and human-environmental connections [23,24]. For example, researchers have started to identify community gardens as sites for ecosocial work for food justice issues [25] and investigate how climate change impacts local drought conditions [23].…”

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“…Ecosocial work is a growing area that is drawing attention to conservation of the natural world and human-environmental connections [23,24]. For example, researchers have started to identify community gardens as sites for ecosocial work for food justice issues [25] and investigate how climate change impacts local drought conditions [23]. Interacting with environmental justice issues out in the field, social workers have started to ask for more education and training concerning environmental topics [26] including food justice [27].…”

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Storytelling and Arts to Facilitate Community Capacity Building for Urban Planning and Social Work

Taylor

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2020

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Creating social connections and fostering engagement in communities is a growing challenge for community work. Planners, social workers, and community activists are starting to look towards the arts and storytelling as a way to promote community capacity. A community in Lopez Island, Washington, facing sustainable housing and agricultural issues brought in a two-day storytelling and theatre program to build capacity for their ecosocial work. This research describes facilitator engagement methodology and pilots a community capacity survey to evaluate the experience of workshop participants. Preliminary results show that the storytelling program makes strides in deepening connections to others and generating authentic dialogue. Participants reported both positive experiences of building trust and negative feelings of vulnerability. As funding can be a major barrier for community groups to incorporate arts programs, this research introduces a preliminary survey that communities can adapt and improve upon to help them start gathering evidence-based data for assessing measures of community capacity. Though the facilitators brought unique theatrical and choreographic skills to the programming, planners and social workers can take away for practice a simple storytelling exercise that participants enthusiastically expressed fostered listening, trust, and connection.

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Environmental Sustainability and Social Work: A Rural Australian Evaluation of Incorporating Eco-Social Work in Field Education

Cited by 17 publications

References 12 publications

Raising awareness of transformative ecosocial work: Participatory action research with Australian practitioners

Raising awareness of transformative ecosocial work: Participatory action research with Australian practitioners

Climate crisis and social work: lack of climate crisis education in social work curriculum

Storytelling and Arts to Facilitate Community Capacity Building for Urban Planning and Social Work

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