Research interests
As a social worker, Dr. Ouedraogo is interested in doing social work research and teaching from an intercultural perspective. In her African centeredness social location, Dr. Ouedraogo has an understanding of a transnational worldview; she invites students to share her curiosity and enthusiasm around equity, self-determination and respect for a culturally grounded social work practice. She believes that people are experts of their own realities and is conducting research projects to describe and understand environmental sustainability, international migration, knowledge sharing, empathy, cultural and economic inclusion issues from the perspectives of peoples’ histories, experiences, aspirations and global-local lifestyle. As part of Dr. Ouedraogo’s current research, she is conducting a project exploring the infusion of environmental sustainability knowledges into social work practice and co-conducting a document analysis project about historical/educational content of social work development in Africa. | International social work, intercultural learning, ethnography, environmental sustainability, knowledge sharing, international migration, trans-nationalism, culturally grounded social work practice
Biography
Valerie Ouedraogo is Associate Professor at MacEwan University. Their stated interests include As a social worker, Dr. Ouedraogo is interested in doing social work research and teaching from an intercultural perspective. In her African centeredness social location, Dr. Ouedraogo has an understanding of a transnational worldview; she invites students to share her curiosity and enthusiasm around equity, self-determination and respect for a culturally grounded social work practice. She believes that people are experts of their own realities and is conducting research projects to describe and understand environmental sustainability, international migration, knowledge sharing, empathy, cultural and economic inclusion issues from the perspectives of peoples’ histories, experiences, aspirati. This summary considered all 2 collected sources.