Adding Futures Thinking and Foresight to Your Social Welfare Policy Class: An Assignment Overview for MSW/BSW Policy Classes
This past year, I taught a traditional social welfare policy class at my post as a social work professor at
Exploring how social workers can increase their impact through futures frameworks – All content developed by Laura Burney Nissen, Ph.D., MSW, Portland State University School of Social Work, Portland, Oregon, USA, Email: nissen@pdx.edu, Twitter: @lauranissen
This past year, I taught a traditional social welfare policy class at my post as a social work professor at
As a way to explore futures thinking in the social work profession, I’ve developed a new game. I’ve enjoyed using
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In April of 2019, I had the privilege of getting to design a futures game for my dean colleagues of
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Followers of this blog know I am a scanning machine – always looking around on Twitter and beyond, gathering and
The week before last, the Institute for the Future (where I have a Research Fellowship affiliation) had their annual “Ten
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This is part of my continuing series to highlight things I see pass by on Twitter that I think are
This is part of a regular series of posts that track a few notable things I find on Twitter that
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