Indigenous Social Work Around the World: Towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice

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Mel Gray, John Coates, Michael Yellow Bird
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008 - Social Science - 339 pages
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.
 

Contents

From Indigenization to Cultural Relevance
13
Towards an Understanding of Indigenous Social Work
49
Indigenous People and the Language of Social Work
59
Prospect or Illusion
83
The Development of Culturally Appropriate Social
97
Tongan Social Work Practice
117
The Twoway Transfer of Social
141
Reconfiguring Chineseness in the International
165
Tales from
219
The Emerging
231
A Project for All of
245
Hearing Indigenous and Local Voices in Mainstream
257
Mel Gray and John Coates
271
References
293
Index
329
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When Bentuhuade
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