James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2023

WS3214 - Eco Social Justice

Subject Description

Focusing on community and social development approaches to practice, this subject explores the concept of eco-social justice and its importance in social welfare practice. Global environmental issues are identified and analysed with an emphasis on their impact at the local level. Responses to these issues at both local and wider levels are then explored, drawing on community and social development frameworks. This includes developing specific strategies for practice at the local level while recognising the globalised context of eco-social issues.

Learning Outcomes

• Locate a personal world-view within the dominant modernist paradigm and assess the implications of this world-view for professional practice
• Identify key global environmental issues and articulate the connections between these issues and the traditional concerns of social welfare
• Compare current social welfare theories advocating a person-in-environment perspective, with an expanded ecological perspective that incorporates a consideration of the non-human world
• Describe and critique the foundational principles of an eco-social justice approach to social welfare
• Identify and evaluate the key features of community and social development approaches to social welfare practice

Subject Assessment

• Written > Case study analysis - (50%) - Individual
• Written > Reflection/reflective task 1 - (50%) - Individual

Note that minor variations might occur due to the continuous subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.

Assumed Knowledge:  To undertake this subject, students must have successfully completed 12 credit points (four subjects) of level 1 study at tertiary level

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:  WS3014 WS4510

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