ABSTRACT

With the increase of hazards in the natural environment, social work organizations—Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and National Association of Social Workers (NASW)—have urged the profession to protect those most vulnerable to hazards by addressing environmental justice issues. Social work students and practitioners have provided perspectives on environmental issues; however, the existing literature knows little about the perspectives of social work faculty on environmental justice. Surveying 477 full-time faculty from CSWE-accredited Master of Social Work programs in the United States, this study explored (1) the proportion of social work faculty that integrate environmental justice contents in their teaching and (2) factors associated with the integration of environmental justice in social work education. Findings reveal that the majority of social work faculty (58.7%) did not infuse environmental justice in their teaching. Moreover, multivariate logistic regression findings indicate that (a) training received in environmental justice (OR = 1.89, p = .005), (b) relevance of environmental justice to social work education (OR = 3.28, p < .001), and (c) feeling of preparedness to teach environmental justice (OR = 1.95, p = .004) predicted integration of environment justice in social work education. Implications of these findings for social work education are discussed.

摘要

随着自然环境中危害的增加，社会工作组织——社会工作教育委员会 (CSWE) 和全国社会工作者协会 (NASW)——敦促该行业通过解决环境正义问题来保护那些最容易受到危害的人。社会工作专业的学生和从业人员提供了对环境问题的看法；然而，现有文献对社会工作教师对环境正义的看法知之甚少。本研究调查了美国 CSWE 认证的社会工作硕士课程的 477 名全职教师，探讨了 (1) 将环境正义内容融入教学的社会工作教师的比例，以及 (2) 与整合环境正义内容相关的因素社会工作教育中的环境正义。调查结果显示，大多数社会工作教师 (58.7%) 没有在他们的教学中融入环境正义。此外，多变量逻辑回归结果表明 (a) 在环境正义方面接受的培训（OR = 1.89，p = .005），（b）环境正义与社会工作教育的相关性（OR = 3.28，p < .001），以及(c) 准备教授环境正义的感觉 (OR = 1.95, p = .004) 预测环境正义在社会工作教育中的整合。讨论了这些发现对社会工作教育的影响。(b) 环境正义与社会工作教育的相关性 (OR = 3.28, p < .001)，以及 (c) 准备教授环境正义的感觉 (OR = 1.95, p = .004) 预测环境正义在社会工作中的整合工作教育。讨论了这些发现对社会工作教育的影响。(b) 环境正义与社会工作教育的相关性 (OR = 3.28, p < .001)，以及 (c) 准备教授环境正义的感觉 (OR = 1.95, p = .004) 预测环境正义在社会工作中的整合工作教育。讨论了这些发现对社会工作教育的影响。