Strengthening critical allyship in social work education: opportunities in the context of #BlackLivesMatter and COVID-19.
COVID-19 has shifted social work education and widened the gaps in services for historically marginalised communities, including people of diverse cultural, sexual and gender identities and social classes. Existing inequities based on cultural differences have been magnified, perhaps most recently e...
| Published in: | Social Work Education Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 371 - 388 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr2023
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