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Empowering Social Work in the Impoverished Communities
University of Lodz
Faculty of Educational Sciences
5
20 hrs of lecture or 10 hrs/student (tutorial)
Anita Gulczyńska, Ph.D
Active participation, written assignment
Basics in sociology
Magdalena Sasin, M.A
OBJECTIVES: to give students basic hands on interactional analysis of the impoverished communities and work over its
application in the field of critical social work
CONTENTS: The area of expertise of the lecturer is empowering social work with inhabitants of the impoverished areas. She
specializes in critical insight into social work issues what should introduce students into the phenomenon of social exclusion from
Description: that perspective. She will get acquainted students with results of her three year participant observation of teenaged boys from an
unprivileged Lodz neighborhood. Qualitative study, experience in the role of a street worker and an advocate allowed her to
understand the world of teenagers from their perspective- perspective of a victim of social reaction to them. Reflection on critical
empowering social work in the impoverished communities follows the focused analysis.
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