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Pivoting During A Pandemic: School Social Work Practice With Families During Covid-19, Ashey-Marie H. Daftary, Erin Sugrue, Brian D. Gustman, Stephanie Lechuga-Peña
Pivoting During A Pandemic: School Social Work Practice With Families During Covid-19, Ashey-Marie H. Daftary, Erin Sugrue, Brian D. Gustman, Stephanie Lechuga-Peña
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The COVID-19 global pandemic led to the unprecedented shuttering of nearly all K–12 public education settings across the United States from March through June 2020. This article explores how school social workers’ roles, responsibilities, and work tasks shifted during Spring 2020 distance learning to address the continuing and changing needs of families and the larger school community. Interviews were conductedd with twenty school social workers in K–12 public schools, across three states, to understand the primary needs of children and families during the pandemic and to learn how school social workers can be most effective in responding to these needs.The …
Unpacking The Worlds In Our Words: Critical Discourse Analysis And Social Work Inquiry, Sandra Leotti, Erin Sugrue, Nick Winges-Yanez
Unpacking The Worlds In Our Words: Critical Discourse Analysis And Social Work Inquiry, Sandra Leotti, Erin Sugrue, Nick Winges-Yanez
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Critical discourse analysis is a rapidly growing, interdisciplinary field of inquiry that combines linguistic analysis and social theory to address the way power and dominance are enacted and reproduced in text. Critical discourse analysis is primarily concerned with the construction of social phenomena and involves a focus on the wider social, political, and historical contexts in which talk and text occur, exploring the way in which theories of reality and relations of power are encoded and enacted in language. Critical discourse analysis moves beyond considering what the text says to examining what the text does. As an interdisciplinary and …