Linda Fehr

Degrees: Current PhD Student (Memorial University of Newfoundland), MSW, BSW (University of Calgary)

Interests: Family practice, social work organizations and administration, field education

Linda Fehr is an instructor at the Faculty of Social Work’s Southern Alberta Region. From her office on the University of Lethbridge campus, she provides instruction within the Lethbridge and Medicine Hat BSW programs.

Fehr was a social work practitioner and manager for 15 years prior to becoming a faculty member. She worked in a variety of settings, including crisis services, residential child and youth services, schools, counselling services, and support and intervention services for foster, adoptive, and birth families involved with child welfare in both rural and urban areas.

Fehr’s teaching and learning interests are in experiential learning processes that are inquiry-based, collaborative, and cooperative, that encourage critical thought, and that are student-oriented, building upon their previous experience, practice interests, and learning needs.

Her academic and research interests include social work education and social justice, anti-oppressive social work practice, field education, community service learning, distance learning, organizational development, and family practice.