Episode 120: Jean

In this episode I speak with Dr Jean Carruthers, a lecturer at the University of Newcastle who received her PhD in 2020 for her work on performance as a critical social work pedagogy. She has built on this to explore a range of creative methods in social work education and practice, with her current work focused on mental health and whether transformative wellbeing practices can be used to address gaps in the sector. Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode:Critical Conversations for Social Work Podcast - https://linktr.ee/criticalconversations4swJean’s PhD (Critical Performance Pedagogy: An approach for developing critical praxis in social work education) - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02615479.2023.2285848NNN training (NNN Name, Narrate, Navigate) - https://www.namenarratenavigate.com/Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_OppressedStephen Brookfield - https://www.stephenbrookfield.com/Henry Giroux’s ‘On Critical Pedagogy’ - https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/on-critical-pedagogy-9781350144989/Patricia Hill Collins ‘Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory’ - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hypatia/article/intersectionality-as-critical-social-theory-patricia-hill-collins-durham-nc-duke-university-press-2019-isbn-9781478005421/132219F147E569254907767E780ED974Bell Hooks - https://www.britannica.com/biography/bell-hooksThis episode's transcript can be viewed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y-Y11XPu3pf4IFrDzhwcPwfvqrQoZF_mKaZkAyTRPVI/edit?usp=sharingThanks to Kevin Macleod of incompetech.com for our theme music.