SPRb1142 Minorities

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Roman Baláž, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Roman Baláž, Ph.D.
Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies
Supplier department: Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 16 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/16, only registered: 0/16
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The course is a continuation of the course "Social Issues of Minorities," which is taught in the fall semester. The goal of the course is that upon completion, students will be oriented to the issues of possible, necessary and inadmissible interventions in problem situations of people of minority status. Upon completion of the course, they will be proficient in the general method of social work with people of minority status (contact, assessment, decision-making, intervention, evaluation).
Learning outcomes
Students are able to use the concepts of diversity, intersectionality and otherness to reflect on the nature of problems faced by people in minority status.
Students know the positives and negatives of specific meta-approaches (administrative/procedural and situational) and ideally typical approaches (therapeutic, counselling, and reform/activist) social workers take to working with members of minority groups.
Students are proficient in the generalist method of social work with people of minority status.
Syllabus
  • Society, the State, and Minorities (repeat of previous course)
  • Prevailing ideologies and the "loss of memory" of social work
  • The aims of social work
  • Intersectionality
  • Otherness and dis/recognition of others
  • Typology of social workers' attitudes
  • Contact with people in minority status
  • Assessment of the problem and its complexity
  • Deciding on the choice of intervention
  • Intervention and its design
  • Evaluation of the intervention and learning lessons
Literature
    required literature
  • Frost, N. (2009). Evaluating practice. In: Adams, R., Dominelli, L. and Payne, M. Practising social work in a complex world. Pargrave, pp. 296-307.
  • Bhatt, S., Sanyal, S., Singh, A. P., Chand, D., Banerjee, S., Khan, M. R., ... & Kushwaha, A. (2019). Definitions of social work in past hundred years: A review. Journal of Social Work, Education, Research and Action, 5(1), 5-27
  • Bowleg, L. (2012). The problem with the phrase women and minorities: intersectionality—an important theoretical framework for public health. American journal of public health, 102(7), 1267-1273
  • Matoušek, O. (2013). Encyklopedie sociální práce – vybrané kapitoly. Praha: Portál
  • Taylor, B. (2010). Professional decision-making in social work. SAGE, pp. 60-71.
  • Musil, L. (2013). Administrativní (procedurální) přístup. In: Matoušek, O. (ed.). Encyklopedie sociální práce. Praha: Portál
  • Graf, S. et al. (2015). Češi a jejich sousedé: meziskupinové postoje a kontakt ve střední Evropě. Praha: Academia
  • Timor-Shlevin, S. (2022). Between othering and recognition: in search of transformative practice at the street level. European Journal of Social Work, 1-13.
  • Alexander, J., C. (2006). Promýšlení „způsobů začlenění“. Asimilace, napojování a multikulturalismus jako varianty občanské participace. In: Marada, R (ed.). Etnická různorodost a občanská jednota. Brno: CDK
  • Kolektiv autorů. Kontaktní práce. Praha: Česká asociace streetwork
  • Ferguson, I., Ioakimidis, V., & Lavalette, M. (2018). Global social work in a political context: Radical perspectives. Policy Press
  • Baláž, R. (2018). Komplexní posouzení: Spojení studia sociálních deviací se sociální prací. Sociální Práce/Sociálna Práca, 18(6), 26-38
  • MUSIL, Libor and Pavel NAVRÁTIL. Přístupy k práci s minoritami (Approaches to the Work with minorites). In Základy sociální práce. 1st ed. Praha: Portál, 2001, p. 267-292. ISBN 80-7178-473-7. info
  • NAVRÁTIL, Pavel and Libor MUSIL. Sociální práce s příslušníky menšinových skupin (Social Work with Members of Minority Groups). Sociální studia. Fakulta sociálních studií MU Brno, 2000, vol. 2000, No 5, p. 127-163. ISSN 1212-365X. info
Teaching methods
Lectures. Analysis of texts and videos. Individual and pair work. Group projects. Discussions and presentations.
Assessment methods
Ongoing tasks and monitoring of their completion. Work in the classroom. Presentation of seminar work. Defence of the seminar work.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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