Integrating Ethnic and Minority Group History Into Social Welfare Policy and History Courses
Abstract This paper provides guidelines for identifying and integrating context relating to ethnic and minority group history into social welfare history and policy courses. Sources of information are reviewed and the use of local history is discussed. Examples for use in classroom teaching are provided.
Multicultural Content in Social Work Graduate Programs: A National Survey.
ABSTRACT This paper reports the results of a national survey of Deans and Directors of graduate social work programs and of social work faculty responsible for teaching graduate-level multicultural courses. The findings indicate the use of a combined infusion and designated course model is the most prominent in addressing the CSWE diversity curriculum content requirement. Although there is substantive content on traditionally oppressed minority populations, there is an increasing number of groups and topics under the banner of diversity. There is heavy reliance on traditional teaching methods and little consistency in the educational resources used to teach the courses. The demographic composition and perceptions of social work faculty who teach multicultural courses are reported. The implications of the findings are discussed.
Some Aspects of American Indian Migration
This paper is a study of federally assisted American Indian migration from the reservations to urban areas. The education of the migrants, their earnings before and after relocation, and the change in the degree of antisocial behavior after leaving the reservation are analyzed. It is found that while relocation can enhance the standard of living of those participating in federal programs, budget limitations prevent these programs from assisting enough applicants, to markedly reduce the level of surplus labor on the reservations. T he purpose of this paper is to present information on the magnitude and character of migration of American Indians from the reservations to urban areas, and its effect on the reservation economy. There are approximately 380,000 American Indians residing on or adjacent to reservations (U.S. Public Health Service, 1966:10). These individuals comprise the most povertystricken minority group in the United States. The median family income for reservation Indians is $1,800 per annum, with 76 percent of all reservation families earning incomes below the poverty threshold (U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1967). Unemployment of reservation males in. 1967 was 37.3 percent of the labor force, or 50 percent higher than in the United States as a whole during the worst part of the Great Depression (U.S. Department of Labor, 1968:68). In 1966, according to a task force on Indian housing, over 75 percent of all reservation homes were substandard, with over 50 percent needing to be replaced (U.S. 13ureau of Indian Affairs, 1966:5). In order to ameliorate the problems of poverty and surplus labor on the reservations, the Bureau of Indian Affairs operates two separate relocation or employment assistance programs for reservation Indians. The first is a * This study was in part financed by funds provided by the William H. Donner Foundation, Inc., to the Brookings Institution where the author was a Research Associate. This content downloaded from 157.55.39.59 on Sun, 16 Oct 2016 04:54:08 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms