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Indigenous Social Work around the World: Towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice
John Coates
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Description for Indigenous Social Work around the World: Towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice
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How can mainstream Western social work learn from and in turn help advance indigenous practice? 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. The contributors identify ways in which indigenization is shaping professional social work practice and education, and examine how social work can better address diversity in international exchanges and cross-cultural issues within and between ... Read more
How can mainstream Western social work learn from and in turn help advance indigenous practice? 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. The contributors identify ways in which indigenization is shaping professional social work practice and education, and examine how social work can better address diversity in international exchanges and cross-cultural issues within and between ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Series
Contemporary Social Work Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780754648383
SKU
V9780754648383
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About John Coates
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Indigenous Social Work around the World: Towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice
’This is a book that is bound to spark discussion. It will help social workers reflect on the diversity of social work around the globe and question the universal validity of social work models, the values they are based on, the methods they use and how social work education deals with them.’ Professional Social Work ' Indigenous Social Work around ... Read more