Reflective Essay on Discrimination and Anti-Oppressive Practices

Reflective Essay

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Topic on which reflective essay will be written is discrimination and anti-oppressive
practice which were studies in week 6 of module. This reflection will be written using model of
Gibbs reflective cycle and this cycle is being used as it enables to properly record and organise
content of the reflection. This helps in recording reflection in different phases and elements of
experience. Discrimination and Anti-oppressive practices are among those topics that I liked
most when they were taught in module and this is why I am writing reflection on learning of
these practices.
MAIN BODY
Description
Discrimination and anti-oppressive practices are two of the topic that I will be reflecting
on and these topics were studies during 6 week of the module. Regarding discrimination I had
some prior knowledge about what it is and how it is not a good or desired practice. Knowledge
that I had earlier was that discrimination involves unfavourable treatment for one individual
compared to all others. However, prior to learning during module I did not have idea about what
is anti-oppressive practice (Markkanen and et.al., 2020). I learnt during the module that
discrimination is a practice in which individuals are either treated unfavourably or they are
treated less favourably than others around them. I learned about different grounds on the basis of
which individuals are discriminated and I learned that age is also a factor on the basis of which
individuals can be discriminated. Anti oppressive practices form of social work in which Social
Work help to identify psychosocial issues with help of intersectional lens and act on these
identified issues. Anti oppressive practices bridges gap between practise activism divide and lead
the society towards a transformative angle of social relations. This is an interdisciplinary
approach that is associated with Social Work practices and focuses on socio-economic operation.
This requires practitioner to critically examine power imbalance which is inherent in social
structure regarding socio-cultural and political context in order to develop strategies for creating
an environment that is free from oppression, racism, and other forms of discrimination in larger
society. In general community anti oppressive practice is concerned with responding to operation
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