| Sumario: | This article presents the concept and models of "reverse mission" as they come from the fields of theology and mission studies and describe experiential courses in international social work that are designed as adaptations of reverse mission for social work. The courses, one in Mexico and the other in Ghana, West Africa, integrate content about the global context of practice into the social work curriculum and sensitize students to the worldwide interconnections of oppression. Student projects provide evidence that these courses also facilitate the transfer of learning from developing countries into social work practice with oppressed and/or culturally diverse populations at home in the 11.5. Exploration of the utility of reverse mission as an approach to international social work education and practice, however, raises questions about its suitability for social work and whether faith- based organizations and/or educational programs can appropriate it for the profession without the hegemony of religious, social, or intellectual conversion.
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