Tass Holmes
Biographic Data
| ID | 141982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tass Holmes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tass |
| FAMILY NAME | Holmes |
| SIGNATURE | HOLMES T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7470-8675 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Climate denial as disavowal
Eco-social work positions climate change as a core planetary boundary breach. It demands urgent attention from social work, as a profession which centralises social justice within its theory and practice. This article argues that social works’ engagement with climate change needs to be contextualised within broader societal narratives that shape experiences of climate disengagement. Conceptual tools, including societal climate management strategi…
Meaning making through reflective practice – A group facilitators’ lived experience
This paper seeks to illuminate, un/tangle and embody the experience of a social worker facilitating learning circles for community services workers. The author takes an autoethnographic approach to this journey. Context (upright font), and practice narrative writing, (in italics font throughout), is interwoven to explore the lived experience of facilitation and provide insights on the decolonial application of leading reflective practice groups. …
Practicing What we teach
Social work education has always been a contested domain of critical practice. However, in the current environment, it is imperative that it remains critical in nature, fostering a deep understanding of structural inequalities and social injustice, so that emerging practitioners are equipped to challenge oppressive systems in a world facing increasing uncertainty. This conceptual paper explores the pedagogical choices social justice educators mad…
Social work graduates’ professional socialisation and identity
Professional socialisation is a complex and interactive process through which professional roles and skills are learned and internalised. In social work, this complexity is due to a changing professional landscape, contested discourses and differing organisational contexts. This article reports on an Australian study exploring the perceptions and experiences of early career social workers and supervisors on professional socialisation. The study u…
Learning Circles, Underpinned by Dadirri
This short take presents the process of a learning circle, underpinned by Dadirri (Ungunmeer-Baumann 1988). This method was used for the purposes of critical reflective practice and data collection activity with non-Indigenous participants. Dadirri is a First Nations (Australian) term for “deep listening.” The learning circle research occurred with social and welfare workers in a regional health service. We found, through privileging Indigenous k…
A sweltering afternoon
This short prose comprises childhood recollections interspersed with a brief contemporary travel ‘memoir’, juxtaposing past and present narratives in a limited gothic style. It conveys a sense of the sultry ambience of far north Queensland’s tablelands region, inland from Cairns, with a particular focus on Herberton, a town in the ‘dry tropics’, with a mining history
Almost within Cooee
Recognising and theorising poverty is a difficult task in Australia, which is among the world's wealthy nations. This paper describes incidental findings of contemporary Australian poverty experiences, mainly affecting sole parents, from a recent ethnographic research in 'Sephirah', a fictitious inner-rural Victorian community. The encompassing study investigated usage of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) by a group of low-income Austr…
No prominent works on this page.
Almost within Cooee
Recognising and theorising poverty is a difficult task in Australia, which is among the world's wealthy nations. This paper describes incidental findings of contemporary Australian poverty experiences, mainly affecting sole parents, from a recent ethnographic research in 'Sephirah', a fictitious inner-rural Victorian community. The encompassing study investigated usage of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) by a group of low-income Austr…
A sweltering afternoon
This short prose comprises childhood recollections interspersed with a brief contemporary travel ‘memoir’, juxtaposing past and present narratives in a limited gothic style. It conveys a sense of the sultry ambience of far north Queensland’s tablelands region, inland from Cairns, with a particular focus on Herberton, a town in the ‘dry tropics’, with a mining history
Learning Circles, Underpinned by Dadirri
This short take presents the process of a learning circle, underpinned by Dadirri (Ungunmeer-Baumann 1988). This method was used for the purposes of critical reflective practice and data collection activity with non-Indigenous participants. Dadirri is a First Nations (Australian) term for “deep listening.” The learning circle research occurred with social and welfare workers in a regional health service. We found, through privileging Indigenous k…
Meaning making through reflective practice – A group facilitators’ lived experience
This paper seeks to illuminate, un/tangle and embody the experience of a social worker facilitating learning circles for community services workers. The author takes an autoethnographic approach to this journey. Context (upright font), and practice narrative writing, (in italics font throughout), is interwoven to explore the lived experience of facilitation and provide insights on the decolonial application of leading reflective practice groups. …
Practicing What we teach
Social work education has always been a contested domain of critical practice. However, in the current environment, it is imperative that it remains critical in nature, fostering a deep understanding of structural inequalities and social injustice, so that emerging practitioners are equipped to challenge oppressive systems in a world facing increasing uncertainty. This conceptual paper explores the pedagogical choices social justice educators mad…
Social work graduates’ professional socialisation and identity
Professional socialisation is a complex and interactive process through which professional roles and skills are learned and internalised. In social work, this complexity is due to a changing professional landscape, contested discourses and differing organisational contexts. This article reports on an Australian study exploring the perceptions and experiences of early career social workers and supervisors on professional socialisation. The study u…
Climate denial as disavowal
Eco-social work positions climate change as a core planetary boundary breach. It demands urgent attention from social work, as a profession which centralises social justice within its theory and practice. This article argues that social works’ engagement with climate change needs to be contextualised within broader societal narratives that shape experiences of climate disengagement. Conceptual tools, including societal climate management strategi…
Psychology (4 works) · Social Work (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Reflective Practice (3 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (3 works) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (2 works) · Critical reflection (2 works)