The Human Rights Philosophy: Support And Opposition Among Undergraduate Social Work Students

Keywords

Evaluation; human rights; social work education

Abstract

In response to the rising importance of human rights, social work student attitudes toward human rights and the effect of human rights course content on these attitudes were assessed. Descriptive results from a sample of 77 students pointed to a few areas of low support for the human rights philosophy, specifically rights related to mental illness, juvenile justice, asylum seeking, same-sex marriage, and the death penalty. Wilcoxon signed-rank tests suggest that human rights content infusion was successful in fostering higher levels of support for some but not all human rights.

Publication Date

10-19-2016

Publication Title

Journal of Teaching in Social Work

Volume

36

Issue

5

Number of Pages

446-459

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/08841233.2016.1234534

Socpus ID

84990228451 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84990228451

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