On March (2025), Fareed, Anan., Byers, David., & Hreish, Khalid published a new study in Social Science & Medicine, titled " Too close for comfort: Intergenerational blame and disillusionment in social work supervision in the West Bank, Palestine”.
The article aimed to study training supervision in Palestine as a window on the moral organizing of the profession. Using modified grounded theory methods, we interviewed and followed 99 supervisors and 14 undergraduate students over a two-year period in 12 West Bank cities. Our analysis reveals an intergenerational clash of values between supervisors and students. Unable to adequately respond to the acuity of need, supervisors and students blame each other for feelings of helplessness and complacency in the normalization of the occupation. The curriculum is not just unspoken, but actively kept hidden, as students learn both implicitly and explicitly to protect their feelings and the details of their work as a means of forbearance and agency in the setting of precarity and disillusionment. The hidden curriculum, or the curriculum in hiding, operates as an affectively charged site of moral contestation, central to the emergence of the profession under prolonged occupation.
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