eLEAP

This course explores and analyses systematic patterns of oppression, their relationships to social policies and practices, and the implications for social work studies. The concept of anti-oppression implies both the existence of oppression and an opposition to oppression. Similarly, an anti-oppressive approach to social
work recognizes that individuals and groups experience oppression and adopts practices aimed at confronting oppression. To create positive change, individual and collective responses to oppression will be explored, along with the role of social work in working with oppressed groups and in transforming oppressive social relations and structures.