Goals
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Learn about the ways that the arts can bring people together, specifically around the theme of social justice
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Learn tangible strategies used to involve the community impacted in the work I have been involved in community art projects in the past, but they have never revolved around the theme of social justice
Personal Goals
Personal Skills & Knowledge to Gain
in relation to social work competencies
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To understand social work on an international scale, because there are diverse and important human experiences that offer deep insight into how social justice can be effectively achieved around the world
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Learning further about the tactics used by JtoJ to incorporate the participation of community members in their work would relate directly as a type of strategy designed to eliminate oppressive structural barriers
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Learn about how they have involved research in their practice, and I can use the practice I am in learning in the MSW program in this research for my project
Competency #2
"understand how diversity and difference characterize and shape the human experience and are critical to the formation of identity"
Competency #3
"advancing human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice... understand strategies designed to eliminate oppressive structural barriers"
Competency #4
"social workers understand that evidence that informs practice derives from multi-disciplinary sources and multiples ways of knowing"
How the Project Addresses
Social Justice Issues
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Those who are impacted by a social issue are working directly on the movements or with the organizations who are fighting against those social issues
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Offers important feedback for JtoJ from their community partners, but it will help me, as a social worker, to further understand how art can be used in social justice movements, along with strategies to use to include community members in the process
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Offers the opportunity for me to think about how social work and social justice are done across countries or in a global context
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The strategies that I evaluate will offer insight into how history can be used to engage present-day individuals and communities into social justice movements