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    Indigenous social work around the world : towards culturally relevant education and practice / edited by Mel Gray, John Coates, Michael Yellow Bird.

    • Title:Indigenous social work around the world : towards culturally relevant education and practice / edited by Mel Gray, John Coates, Michael Yellow Bird.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Gray, Mel, 1951-
      Coates, John, 1948-
      Yellow Bird, Michael.
    • Published/Created:Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Social work with Indigenous peoples.
      Social work with indigenous peoples--Study and teaching.
    • Description:xxvii, 339 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    • Series:Contemporary social work studies.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-328) and index.
    • ISBN:9780754648383 (hbk.)
      0754648389 (hbk.)
    • Contents:Pt. 1. 'Indigenization' as an outmoded concept
      1. From 'indigenization' to cultural relevance / Mel Gray and John Coates
      2. Promoting reciprocal international social work exchanges : professional imperialism revisited / James Midgley
      Pt. 2. Indigenous social work : a just cause
      3. Towards an understanding of indigenous social work / Mel Gray, Michael Yellow Bird and John Coates
      4. Indigenous people and the language of social work / Michael Yellow Bird and Mel Gray
      5. Indigenous social work in the United States : reflections on Indian tacos, Trojan horses and canoes filled with indigenous revolutionaries / Hilary N. Weaver
      6. Decolonizing social work in Australia : prospect or illusion / Linda Briskman
      Pt. 3. Towards culturally relevant social work practice
      7. development of culturally appropriate social work practice in Sarawak, Malaysia / Ling How Kee
      8. past, the present and the future : the New Zealand indigenous experience of social work / Wheturangi Walsh-Tapiata
      9. Tongan social work practice / Tracie Mafile'o
      10. Critical reflections on an aboriginal approach to helping / Michael Anthony Hart
      11. Home-made social work : the two-way transfer of social work practice knowledge between India and the USA / Jayashree Nimmagadda and Diane R. Martell
      12. Localizing social work with Bedouin-Arab communities in Israel : limitations and possibilities / Alean Al-Krenawi and John R. Graham
      Pt. 4. Culturally relevant social work education
      13. Reconfiguring "Chineseness" in the international discourse on social work in China / Rick Sin
      14. journey of a thousand miles begins with one step : the development of culturally relevant social work education and fieldwork practice in China / Angelina Yuen-Tsang and Ben Ku
      15. Re-envisioning indigenization : when Benthuhuade and Bentude social work intersect in China / Miu Chung Yan and A. Ka Tat Tsang
      16. Developing culturally relevant social work education in Africa : the case of Botswana / Kwaku Osei-Hwedie and Morena J. Rankopo
      17. Missing the 'flight from responsibility' : tales from a non-indigenous educator pursuing spaces for social work education relevant to indigenous Australians / Susan Gair
      18. Picking up what was left by the trail : the emerging spirit of aboriginal education in Canada / Gord Bruyere
      19. Indigenous social work education : a project for all of us? / Erika Faith
      20. Hearing indigenous and local voices in mainstream social work / Mel Gray, John Coates and Tiani Hetherington
      21. Conclusion / Mel Gray and John Coates
      Postscript. Terms of endearment : a brief dictionary for decolonizing social work with indigenous peoples / Michael Yellow Bird.
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