The School of Social Work is pleased to offer the Teaching Club for full and part time SSW faculty who wish to engage in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and scholarship of technology enhanced learning (SoTEL) to advance anti-oppressive, inclusive teaching in a sustained way. 

On Februrary 26, 2024 Joy Ernst will present Teaching Detroit in Detroit’s Social Work School – Presentation and Facilitated Discussion. As faculty in “Detroit’s Social Work School,” how do we “teach Detroit”? This will be a combined presentation/information sharing session on how faculty use the city of Detroit as a resource for teaching about social work practice. Ernst will present her experiences in creating Detroit-based content for SW 3710: Social Welfare and the Social Work Profession: History, Trends and Basic Concepts and provide examples from her teaching materials. Ernst will then invite discussion and information sharing from participants.

Referencing article: Ernst, J.S. (2022) Historical content in the social work curriculum: the value of local history. Social Work Education, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2022.2098944.

Additional resources: 

• Boyd, H. (2017). Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination. Amistad.
• File, N. Detroiters Are Not Waiting to Be Saved, Boston Review
• Jay, M., & Conklin, P. (2020). A People’s History of Detroit. Duke University Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/73699/
• Sugrue, T. J. (2014). The origins of the urban crisis: Race and inequality in postwar Detroit (First Princeton Classics ed.). Princeton University Press. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/wayne/detail.action?docID=1604277

Prework: Read the scheduled article(s) to join a robust discussion. 

Location: This event is held in a hyflex format in the School of Social Work #233 Conference Room and via Teams (click here to join Teams)

All sessions are scheduled in October, November, February, and March on the fourth Monday from 12pm-1pm. We look forward to what we will learn together!