Teaching Assistant: SWRK 428 - Social Policy & Administration

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Graduate Student Teaching Assistant required for SWRK 428 - Social Policy & Administration for Fall 2023 Term. Areas of expertise/knowledge include:

• Social policy and social services in Canada.

• The impact of policies and organizational structures on service users and social workers.
• The connection between social work theory and research, governmental and institutional policy and direct practice.
• Relationship between social location and social policy.
• How social policies define, confine and shape practice and the ways in which social ideology, discourse and oppression intersect to shape practice at societal, institutional and individual levels.
• The impact of social policies and programs on the lives of people and the role of social workers in these arenas.
• Issues of access and equity in human services.
• Link between socio-political and policy analysis to organizational governance and social work practice.
• Strategies for developing thoughtful and critical practice including those related to individual and systemic change, and communication and understanding in worker-client relationships.
• The development and implementation of social policies.

• Special topics including homelessness, aging, health, child welfare, poverty, housing, multiculturalism policy, and refugee and immigration policy.

Hourly Salary:

Position Start Date:

2023-08-30

Position End Date:

2023-12-12

Deadline to Apply:

2023-06-20

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