John Coates

Indigenous Social Work around the World (eBook, ePUB)

Towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice
Redaktion: Gray, Mel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together prominent international scholars involved in both Western and indigenous social work across the globe - including James Midgley, Linda Briskman, Alean Al-Krenawi and John R. Graham - to discuss some of the most significant global trends and issues relating to indigenous and cross-cultural social work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317117247
• Artikelnr.: 45098798

Autorenporträt

Mel Gray is Professor of Social Work, Research Institute for Social Inclusion and Wellbeing (RISIW), The University of Newcastle. John Coates is Professor of Social Work at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Michael Yellow Bird is Professor of Social Work at Humboldt State University, Arcata, California and is the Founder and previous Director of the Center for Indigenous Peoples' Critical and Intuitive Thinking at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Introduction, Mel Gray, John Coates and Michael Yellow
Bird; Part1 'Indigenization' as an Outmoded Concept: From 'indigenization'
to cultural relevance, Mel Gray and John Coates; Promoting reciprocal
international social work exchanges: professional imperialism revisited,
James Midgley. Part 2 Indigenous Social Work: A Just Cause: Towards an
understanding of indigenous social work, Mel Gray, Michael Yellow Bird and
John Coates; Indigenous people and the language of social work, Michael
Yellow Bird and Mel Gray; Indigenous social work in the United States:
reflections on Indian tacos, Trojan horses, and canoes filled with
indigenous revolutionaries, Hilary N. Weaver; Decolonizing social work in
Australia: prospect or illusion, Linda Briskman. Part 3 Towards Culturally
Relevant Social Work Practice: The development of culturally appropriate
social work practice in Sarawak, Malaysia, Ling How Kee; The past, the
present and the future: the New Zealand indigenous experience of social
work, Wheturangi Walsh-Tapiata; Tongan social work practice, Tracie
Mafile'o; Critical reflections on an Aboriginal; approach to helping,
Michael Anthony Hart; Homemade social work: the 2-way transfer of social
work practice knowledge between India and the USA, Jayashree Nimmagadda and
Diane R. Martell; Localizing social work with Bedouin-Arab communities in
Israel: limitations and possibilities, Alean Al-Krenawi and John R. Graham.
Part 4 Culturally Relevant Social Work Education: Reconfiguring
'Chineseness' in the international discourse on social work in China, Rick
Sin; A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step: the development of
culturally relevant social work education and fieldwork practice in China,
Angelina Yuen-Tsang and Ben Ku; Re-envisioning indigenization: when
bentuhuade and bentude social work intersect in China, Miu Chung Yan and A
Ka Tat Tsang; Developing culturally relevant social work education in
Africa: the case of Botswana, Kwaku Osei-Hwedie and Morena J. Rankopo;
Missing the 'flight from responsibility': tales from a non-indigenous
educator pursuing spaces for social work education relevant to indigenous
Australians, Susan Gair; Picking up what was left by the trail: the
emerging spirit of Aboriginal education in Canada, Gord Bruyere; Indigenous
social work education: a project for all of us?, Erika Faith; Hearing
indigenous and local voices in mainstream social work, Mel Gray, John
Coates and Tiani Hetherington; Conclusion, Mel Gray and John Coates;
Postscript: terms of endearment: a brief dictionary for decolonizing social
work with indigenous peoples, Michael Yellow Bird; References; Index.