Readings

Use your Diversity, Oppression, and Social Functioning text to read the following:

• Chapter 10, “Asian Americans: Ethnocentricism and Consequences,” pages 145–159.
• Chapter 14, “Social Work Practice With Immigrants,” pages 224–236.

Readings

Use your Diversity, Oppression, and Social Functioning text to read the following:

• Chapter 6, “African Americans: Consequence of Discrimination,” pages 78–88.
• Chapter 8, “A Multi-Diversity Perspective on Latinos: Oppression and Social Functioning,” pages 108–123.
• Chapter 9, “Native Americans: Oppression and Social Work Practice,” pages 126–142.

Assignment Overview

Social workers need to be culturally competent, and their research and research methods should reflect this competency. This assignment will give you an opportunity to compare and evaluate three research articles for cultural competency.

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following EPAs and advanced practice behaviors:

• EPA Competency 2: Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice.
  • C2.SP.A: Analyze dimensions and differentiation in diversity and apply the influence of relationships, intervention techniques, and technologies with diverse clients, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
    • Related Assignment Criteria:
      • 1. Analyze the elements of culturally relevant research in social work.
      • 2. Analyze and describe the elements of traditional research in social work.
• EPA Competency 3: Advance Human Rights and Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice.
  • C3.SP.A: Apply leadership skills and technology to engage in collaborative practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities to advocate for appropriate services, resources, and supports to achieve goals and foster positive change.
    • Related Assignment Criteria:
      • 5. Identify how to engage in collaborative practice to advocate for appropriate services.

Assignment Description

This is the second component of your course project. In this assignment, you will evaluate the differences between traditional research and research approaches that take culture into consideration. What is different between these two approaches and how might each approach impact the promotion of social justice? You will examine three research articles of your choice, featuring the cultural group you have selected. You will then evaluate the method of research conducted for its level of cultural competence. To ensure that this is a scholarly research paper, explore research-based articles and books found by searching through the Capella University Library databases pertaining to issues of culture in research and culturally relevant research.

Assignment Instructions

To help you understand some of the unique challenges of culturally relevant research, review the readings concerning culturally relevant research approaches in the Study activities for Unit 5 and Unit 6. Then search for scholarly sources in the Capella University Library and locate at least three articles that add to your knowledge of the cultural group you have chosen to explore for your final project. Review these articles in a pape, include the following:

• An analysis and a description of traditional research, addressing the question of its cultural relevance.
• An analysis and a description of what comprises culturally relevant research.
• An analysis and a description of at least three research studies that have addressed the cultural group you are exploring.
• An evaluation of the key differences between traditional research and culturally relevant research and how that impacts the cultural group you are exploring.
• A discussion of the relationship of culturally relevant research to the promotion of social justice for the group you are studying.
• Identify how to engage in collaborative practice to advocate for appropriate services.