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Title: Indigenous people and the language of social work
Author/Creator: Yellow Bird, Michael; Gray, Mel
Institution: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
Description: The social work profession is guilty of false advertising when, to paraphrase its international definition, it claims to promote social change and to empower and liberate people to enhance their well-being at the points where they interact with their environments through promoting principles of human rights and social justice (IFSW 2002). One would be hard put to find a more general globalizationfor a values-based profession, which ostensibly promotes respect for diversity and culturally relevant practice responsive to local contexts. Clearly, Indigenous Peoples and the social world profession do not speak the same language, for as we show in this chapter and throughout this book, the very term 'Indigenous' is offensive to Indigenous Peoples.
Relation: Indigenous Social Work Around the World: Towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice p. 59-69
Relation: Contemporary Social Work Studies
Relation: http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=7052&edition_id=9706
Date: 2008
Publisher: Ashgate
Keyword(s): Indigenous; social work; social justice; globalization; local contexts
Resource Type: book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804480
Identifier: ISBN:9780754648383

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