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Panel Session

Values and Ethics

Solidarity in Praxis: Abolitionist Values and Pedagogies of Disability Justice

Abolitionist approaches to teaching and learning create opportunities for social work students and educators to build solidarity and apply ethical principles. Through discussion of abolitionist pedagogy and epistemology in social work classrooms, presenters highlight strategies for interrogating racial capitalism’s outgrowths in service of disability justice and social justice more broadly.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this session, attendees should be able to:
  1. Attendees will learn about abolitionist pedagogy with an emphasis on bridging social work ethics and anti-oppressive values in the classroom. Attendees will come away with a foundational understanding of abolitionist pedagogy.
  2. Attendees will learn about approaches to teaching racial capitalism and its relationship to social work including teaching and practicing disability justice principles in the classroom as an antidote to the practices and logics of racial capitalism.
  3. Attendees will learn about tangible examples of solidarity in praxis in and outside of the classroom including various lessons, activities and interventions.