Indigenous Social Work around the World: Towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice

by Gray,Mel

• ISBN13: 9780754648383
• ISBN10: 0754648389
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-01-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

For the first time, this volume brings together prominent international scholars involved in both Western and Indigenous social work to discuss some of the most significant global trends and issues relating to Indigenous and crosscultural social work. The

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

'Indigenization' as an Outmoded Concept: From 'indigenization' to cultural relevance

Promoting reciprocal international social work exchanges: professional imperialism revisited

Indigenous Social Work: A Just Cause: Towards an understanding of indigenous social work

Indigenous people and the language of social work

Indigenous social work in the United States: reflections on Indian tacos, Trojan horses, and canoes filled with indigenous revolutionaries

Decolonizing social work in Australia: prospect or illusion

Towards Culturally Relevant Social Work Practice: The development of culturally appropriate social work practice in Sarawak, Malaysia

The past, the present and the future: the New Zealand indigenous experience of social work

Tongan social work practice

Critical reflections on an Aboriginal; approach to helping

Homemade social work: the 2-way transfer of social work practice knowledge between India and the USA

Localizing social work with Bedouin-Arab communities in Israel: limitations and possibilities

Culturally Relevant Social Work Education: Reconfiguring 'Chineseness' in the international discourse on social work in China

A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step: the development of culturally relevant social work education and fieldwork practice in China

Re-envisioning indigenization: when bentuhuade and bentude social work intersect in China

Developing culturally relevant social work education in Africa: the case of Botswana

Missing the 'flight from responsibility': tales from a non-indigenous educator pursuing spaces for social work education relevant to indigenous Australians

Picking up what was left by the trail: the emerging spirit of Aboriginal education in Canada

Indigenous social work education: a project for us all?

Hearing indigenous and local voices in mainstream social work

Conclusion

Postscript: terms of endearment: a brief dictionary for decolonizing social work with indigenous peoples

References

Index

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