Centering Racial Equity in a BSW Program: What We’ve Learned in Five Years

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Table 1. Theoretical frameworks for racial equity curriculum change.

Area	Education	Popular Education	Critical Race Theory/ Intersectional Feminism	Policy Implementation	Leadership and Management
Cites	Gay, 2000; CantuRuiz and Cantu, 2013	P. Freire, 1968	Crenshaw, 1989; Crenshaw et al., 1995	Sandfort and Moulton, 2014	Heifetz et al., 2009
Ideas	Enduring understandings	Dialogics versus colonizing pedagogy	Demarginalizing intersections; centering BIPOC voices	Target experiences analysis	Technical versus adaptive challenges
Use/ application	Knowledge you wish students to retrieve years after taking the course	Cooperation, unity, organization, and cultural synthesis are decolonizing strategies	“The goal … should be to facilitate the inclusion of marginalized groups for whom it can be said: ‘When they enter, we all enter’” (Crenshaw, 1989, p. 167)	Choose three to four composite students to keep in mind while redesigning curriculum	Technical problems are discrete and solvable; adaptive challenges require organizational culture change

Note. BIPOC = Black, Indigenous, people of color.

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