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Advocacy Anxiety: Dismantling Fear and Resistance and Engaging Graduate Students in Public Policy

Advocacy Anxiety: Dismantling Fear and Resistance and Engaging Graduate Students in Public Policy

Kelsey H. Sarasqueta-Allen
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781799848363|ISBN10: 1799848361|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799864868|EISBN13: 9781799848370
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4836-3.ch003
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Sarasqueta-Allen, Kelsey H. "Advocacy Anxiety: Dismantling Fear and Resistance and Engaging Graduate Students in Public Policy." Reshaping Graduate Education Through Innovation and Experiential Learning, edited by Toby S. Jenkins, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 43-58. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4836-3.ch003

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Sarasqueta-Allen, K. H. (2021). Advocacy Anxiety: Dismantling Fear and Resistance and Engaging Graduate Students in Public Policy. In T. Jenkins (Ed.), Reshaping Graduate Education Through Innovation and Experiential Learning (pp. 43-58). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4836-3.ch003

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Sarasqueta-Allen, Kelsey H. "Advocacy Anxiety: Dismantling Fear and Resistance and Engaging Graduate Students in Public Policy." In Reshaping Graduate Education Through Innovation and Experiential Learning, edited by Toby S. Jenkins, 43-58. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4836-3.ch003

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Abstract

The nature of graduate education often promotes the development of radical critical thinking, professional orientation, and research skills. However, it fails to connect this radical development of thought to tangible, action-oriented social justice advocacy practices. Neglecting this connection of theory to practice potentially exacerbates the experience of advocacy anxiety (the fear and resistance of engaging in advocacy) and slacktivism (engaging in relatively meaningless, actionless social justice). Through a counselor education lens, the purpose of this chapter is to explore the roots of advocacy anxiety and slacktivism and how to rectify inaction through the implementation of public policy-oriented, experiential learning activities in graduate education curriculum.

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