Applicability of human rights in social policies: what do you know about human rights? Critical dialogue with social work students in Seville (Spain)

ABSTRACT

This work presents some of the findings from a Teacher Innovation Project undertaken by faculty members at Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville (Spain), entitled ‘Humanising the policies and (re) creating the applicability of rights.’ The purpose of this project was to promote Social Work students’ learning about the praxis of human rights from a critical perspective and the applicability of social policies in society. For the final product of the project, we collected narratives through the use of techniques such as group discussion and interviews with professionals and excluded groups, to create videos that presented an approach to basic concepts and the opinions of teachers and students. Once the project ended, we continued the investigation in order to evaluate the impact of the lessons using the material we created. We developed a questionnaire to find out the perceptions of the next year’s students on subjects related to the initial project.

KEYWORDS:

• Human rights
• dialogue
• critical thinking
• social policies
• social work

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1. The Collective of Prostitutes of Seville (CPS) defends the rights of sex workers. See https://www.tercerainformacion.es/articulo/actualidad/19/10/2018/apdha-y-el-colectivo-de-prostitutas-de-sevilla-rechazan-que-la-ley-andaluza-de-igualdad-vulnere-los-derechos-de-las-trabajadoras-sexuales/. Consulted on 2^nd May 2022.

2. Audio-visual pills are short videos in web and mobile format that allow the creators to show specific information to a specific audience (general or specialized) in a creative and particularly attractive way.

3. Available at.

https://upotv.upo.es/video/magic/1idycb599qkko8g84oo0oowc4gc8s8k

https://upotv.upo.es/video/magic/kyb8a6s1zogkk4c8w44ogkos4gcwkcs

https://upotv.upo.es/video/magic/jy9s3y89o6oo0w4o4gcgcgos4cggcsg

4. Enseñanzas Prácticas y de Desarrollo (Practical and Developmental Teachings).

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Social Work Department (Pablo de Olavide University) under [RESOLUCIÓN DE 31 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021].