“In someone else’s shoes:” Utilizing reflection to challenge poverty attitudes and develop critical consciousness

The development of a critical consciousness around issues poverty is an essential goal social work educators. Teaching students about requires that they evaluate their preexisting attitudes to assess compatibility with professional ethics and values. Recognizing the meaning give prior attitudes, course experiences, personal reflections can help educators better understand how shifts in may occur. In this paper, authors discuss use student journaling immediately following experiential learning activities as useful process for developing empathetic understanding poverty. Keywords: Poverty, pedagogy, journaling, consciousness,