- Title
- Indigenous social work around the world: towards culturally relevant education and practice
- Creator
- Gray, Mel; Coates, John; Yellow Bird, Michael
- Relation
- Contemporary social work studies
- Relation
- http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409407942
- Publisher
- Ashgate
- Resource Type
- book
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- How can mainstream Western social work learn from and, in turn, help advance Indigenous practice? 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 cross cultural social work. The contributors discuss and share ways in which Indigenization is shaping professional social work practice and education, and examine ways in which social work can better address diversity in international exchanges and cross cultural issues within and between countries. Key theoretical, methodological, and service issues and challenges in the Indigenization of social work are reviewed, including the way in which adaptation can lead to more effective practices within indigenous communities and emerging economies, as well as provide greater insight into cross cultural understanding and practice. The book will assist social work academics and students to evaluate the mainstream assumptions of university and homogenization and to move towards seeing culture as an essential consideration, not only in all aspects of Indigenous and cross cultural practice, but in social work generally.
- Subject
- indigenous; social work; cross cultural
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1057838
- Identifier
- uon:16282
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781409407942
- Language
- eng
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