Hearing indigenous voices in mainstream social work

Title: Hearing indigenous voices in mainstream social work
Creator: Gray, Mel; Coates, John; Hetherington, Tiani
Relation: Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services Vol. 88, Issue 1, p. 55-66
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.3592
Publisher: Alliance for Children and Families
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2007
Description: In this paper we attempt to counter misconceptions about silencing Indigenous voices in mainstream social work. We contend that Indigenous voices are present in several emerging bodies of mainstream social work literature, such as the literature on spirituality and ecosocial work, but most social workers do not hear them because they are more inclined to turn the cross-cultural or anti-oppressive practice literature, predominantly in the United States and United Kingdom, respectively, when seeking answers for issues relating to diversity in social work. Few look to the Indigenous social work literature. Thus the central question this article addresses is 'what might we learn about diversity and culture from the Indigenous social work literature that might inform mainstream culturally relevant social work practice?'
Subject: social work; literature; ecosocial work; diversity; culture
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/803430
Identifier: uon:6399
Identifier: ISSN:1044-3894
Language: eng
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