Unsettling reflexivity and critical race pedagogy in social work education: narratives from social work students

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Table 1. Auto-ethnography sessions overview.

Session	Goals	Topics & Activities	Writing Prompts
1	Build rapport with one another and clarify any questions regarding the auto-ethnographic sessions	- Overview of Autoethnographic sessions and clarification of any questions - Obtain Verbal Informed Consent to participate and audio record sessions - Introductions & group agreements - Group writing. Share writings with one another and provide feedback - Closing	- What are some important identities that make you who you are? (prompt: how do you identify yourself in terms of race, class, gender, religion, ability status, etc.) - What has motivated you to pursue social work education? - In one word, how would you describe how you feel after today’s session? what is something that you liked and that you would like to change/try differently?
2	Reflect and interrogate our understanding and experiences relevant to critical race pedagogy and unsettling reflexivity	- Obtain Verbal Informed Consent to participate and audio record sessions - Icebreaker/team building exercise - Reviewing group agreements - Group writing. Share writings with one another and provide feedback - Closing	- When you hear about the words critical race pedagogy and unsettling reflexivity, what words come to your mind? - What do teaching, learning, and reflecting mean to you? please share about the significance if any, it has played in your life and in your social work education and training - What is the role of questioning and challenging dominant beliefs, ways of learning/teaching in your life and in social work education? how is that reflected in your experience? - In one word, how would you describe how you feel after today’s session? what is something that you liked and that you would like to change?
3	Reflect and interrogate our experiences in social work education and generate recommendations	- Obtain Verbal Informed Consent to participate and audio record sessions - Icebreaker/team building exercise - Reviewing group agreements - Group writing. Share writings with one another and provide feedback - Closing	- How have your personal and professional experiences shaped your learning? - In your experiences, what have been some strengths and challenges of social work education in integrating critical pedagogy and reflexivity? - Drawing from your experiences, what are some recommendations you’d like to share to strengthen social work education in relation to critical race pedagogy and unsettling reflexivity? - In one word, how would you describe how you feel after today’s session? what is something that you liked and that you would like to change?
4	Revise individual narratives and analyze emerging themes	- Obtain Verbal Informed Consent to participate and audio record sessions - Icebreaker/team building exercise - Reviewing group agreements - Group writing and analysis. - Closing	- What are some emerging themes you notice from our individual and collective narratives? - In one word, how would you describe how you feel after today’s session? what is something that you liked and that you would like to change?
5	Finalize writing and analysis. Final closing reflections	- Obtain Verbal Informed Consent to participate and audio record sessions - Icebreaker/team building exercise - Reviewing group agreements - Group writing and analysis. - Closing	- How are the emerging themes we have individually and collectively identified converging or diverging? - What was your experience overall in the autoethnographic sessions? what would you like to change?