Damn self-reflection.
So, a big part of getting your master's in social work at PSU is deconstructing everything you've ever believed about the world and how it works, including how people act and who people are - with YOU being the person about whom you are supposed to think the most. Meaning, a huge part of this education is getting to know yourself on a whole different level...learning and deconstructing your biases, beliefs, strengths, and weaknesses in a way you never have before. While I fully see and accept the value in this, it can also be quite disconcerting at times. You are forced, now and then, to come face-to-face with some ugliness that you didn't even realize you had inside you. Realizing it's there and maintaining an awareness of this ugliness is very important if you are ever to be an effective social worker. However, sometimes I just want to push it away and pretend it doesn't exist. It's just pretty damn uncomfortable to just live with it, you know? All part of the process, I suppose.
But that doesn't mean that I don't want to go skipping out into a pristine meadow and shout, "I AM A GOOD PERSON! I SWEAR!" at the top of my lungs once in a while.
Sigh.
posted by 'toria @ 5:16 PM
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I kind of hope that this is at the base of ANY kind of education. Though, it's nice (and frustrating, as you say) that within the MSW program there is a pointed focus on this issue. I mean, shouldn't we, while adding knowledge and experience in a certain field of study, ALSO be looking inward? Otherwise we're building on a faulty foundation. Too bad they don't include that element of analysis in say, law school, or when you're earning your MBA, eh?
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