Jeanette Schmid
Biographic Data
| ID | 5148271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeanette Schmid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeanette |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmid |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMID J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vancouver Island University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7561-2867 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Is “Good Social Work” Anti-oppressive practice: The mainstreaming of critical discourse
Anti-oppressive social work practice (AOP) has been advanced as a key progressive methodology for some decades. Standing in critical social work, it is founded on clear assumptions and includes several key strategies for implementation. At the same time, however, two factors, namely the alignment of the discourse of good (dominant) social work with social justice, and AOP theorists themselves not consistently distinguishing differences, has led t…
The value of sourcing social work journals for critical discourse analysis
Using the contents of journals has been an underutilized research approach in social work. Journal archives represent what has been legitimated in the discipline as well as what forms the dominant social work canon. To theorize about journal archival sourcing as a research method, we cite the limited extant examples, drawing out from these the methodology used. We then make a case for the value of journal mining and in particular from the vantage…
Social Work Journals and the Disciplinary Production of Alternative Knowledge(s)
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Progressive Human Services on April 10, 2024, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2024.2338312
A 40 year (contextualized) social work journey
Employing critical autoethnography, this article conveys how over my four decades of social work, I have come to adopt a contextualized social work stance and identifies what emerge as four key areas of contextualized social work. These include attention to race, ethnicity and culture as experienced in the local environment, the local articulation of social conditions and appropriate social work responses, the activation of local knowledge genera…
Social work's colonial past with Indigenous children and communities in Australia and Canada: A cross‐national comparison
This article offers a cross‐national comparison of social work in two countries, Australia and Canada, about the care of Indigenous children within the context of colonization and the evolving profession. The discussion is based on data from two empirical studies that examined professional discourse relating to the removal of Indigenous children from their families and Indigenous peoples more broadly within key historical time frames. The studies…
A community of practice approach for school-based developmental social work in South Africa: Reflections of social workers
This article reports on social worker reflections on the benefits and barriers of a multisectoral community of practice to improve child well-being for beneficiaries of the Child Support Grant in poor urban communities in Johannesburg, South Africa. The findings could inform cash plus school based social work policies and practice
In History’s Shadow: Child Welfare Discourses Regarding Indigenous Communities in the Canadian Social Work Journal
This article reviews all items in the Canadian Social Work journal over its almost 90-year history that relate to child welfare practice in an Indigenous context. We review the journal contents as a way of understanding the profession’s voice, noting that a journal’s discursive practice reflects disciplinary discourse and that this journal positioned itself as a platform for social work debates. Our analysis contributes also to the truth-telling …
Interrogating settler social work with indigenous persons in Canada
This article, towards decolonizing social work, reports on a study that examined the record of Canadian social work regarding Indigenous Canadians through the lens of the national professional association's journal. Noting that the broad dataset of over 1,500 journal articles represents legitimized knowledge within the discipline, the study aimed to develop a history of the present to interrogate the discourses relating to such practice. The stud…
Contextualized Social Work Education: A Critical Understanding of the Local
Because dominant social work is mismatched to many contexts, alternative practice and educational approaches have emerged. To highlight educational examples, this phenomenological study explores the experience of 28 Canadian and South African educators teaching alternative social work. These educators conceptualized a multidimensional, integrated, contextualized framework that attends to power and resistance, and extends critical social work educ…
Contextualized social work education in Canada: Understanding educators’ perspectives
Dominant Eurocentric social work practices and knowledges have been critiqued for perpetuating colonial perspectives, underlining social control aspects of social work, advancing individualism, ignoring a holistic understanding of issues, and overlooking collective approaches. Alternative practice examples are being documented but less attention has been paid to social work education. A phenomenological study with 15 Canadian social work educator…
The Canadian Social Work Review: A Canadian Character of Social Work
Noting that scholarly journals represent a particular repository of knowledge, we use content analysis to explore the constructions of social work represented in the Canadian Social Work Review – Revue canadienne de service social over 2010–2019. This journal is the only formal bilingual (French-English), peer-reviewed social work journal in the country. Rather than broadly reflecting Canadian realities and contexts, the emerging trends imply spe…
A reinterrogation of South African child welfare discourse: A case for decolonisation
Relying on discourse analysis and critical social work, this article explores the relevance of a decolonisation discourse to South African child welfare. A child welfare discourse of coloniality emerges from Australia, New Zealand and Canada. This emphasises the role that colonisation has played in eradicating indigenous persons or alternately assimilating subjugated populations to Western norms and sensibilities and maintains that coloniality pe…
Transforming Social Work: Contextualised Social Work Education in South Africa
Despite significant transformation efforts in South African social welfare, social work education still inducts students into prevailing paradigms. Critics suggest that dominant social work is ineffective in that it is culturally inappropriate, marginalises other knowledges, overlooks structural issues, is expensive and is mismatched to local needs. The term “contextualised social work education” as used in this article incorporates the local foc…
Autoethnography: Locating the self as standpoint in post-apartheid South Africa
Social Service Workforce Strengthening in Sub-Saharan Africa
Both the Global North and South experience challenges regarding social service workforce development. The strengthening of the social service workforce in the South is hampered by a series of challenges. This paper draws on a recent qualitative study highlighting social service workforce developments in eight sub-Saharan countries from 2010 to 2015. A structured questionnaire including open- and close-ended questions was used to elicit data regar…
Transforming child and family services in urban communities in South Africa: Lessons from the South
Post‐apartheid, South African agencies have been required to shift their services in fundamental ways, including offering services in previously un‐resourced areas, honouring the rights of children and families, ensuring that users, staff and governing bodies are representative of the population and providing developmental social welfare services in place of child protection‐oriented interventions only. A study of urban South African child welfar…
Overlooking the most vulnerable: The child welfare research agenda 2005–2010
Literature highlighting both the archaeology (chronology) of child welfare developments or genealogy (insight into the discourses shaping such developments) is rare. Even less available are investigations into the research agenda regarding child welfare. This paper attempts to provide a snapshot of the priorities for child welfare researchers as represented in the international literature from 2005 to 2010 and the discourses inherent within these…
The interaction of local and international child welfare agendas: A South African case
This article assesses the interaction between international and local influences in South African child welfare practice and education between 2001 and 2010. Based on a mixed methods study, it finds that the primary mechanism for international exchange occurred through funding. Professional imperialism continued to be evidenced in the domination of Northern agendas in local curricula and the lack of critical interrogation of external practices. A…
A History of the Present: Uncovering Discourses in (South African) Child Welfare
Foucault's analytical methods of archaeology and genealogy reveal that South African child welfare thinking cannot be clearly divided into an apartheid and post-apartheid epoch. Rather, this history of the present identifies that a Child Protection discourse continues to dominate current child welfare legislation and policies, both at a state and an agency level, even while the language of a Developmental Social Welfare discourse is utilised. The…
Soul Buddyz Clubs: A social development innovation
Soul Buddyz Clubs, centered on social mobilization and children’s rights, offer a model for developmental child welfare both in South Africa and further afield. Features of successful clubs and the way in which these enhance the lives of children, particularly in under-resourced areas, are highlighted
Developing Shared Knowledge: Family Group Conferencing as a Means of Negotiating Power in the Child Welfare System
Families engaged with the Anglo-American child welfare system frequently feel as though their own experiences, perspectives and needs are given less credence than those of child protection workers. While this is attributable to a range of factors, a central issue revolves around how and what information is obtained, interpreted and shared by those in the child welfare system as information sharing can be utilised by service providers as a means o…
Quo vadis? Trends in South African child welfare policies
English South African child welfare remains in transition a decade post-apartheid. Child Protection assumptions impede policy efforts towards a more intersectoral, holistic, strengths-based, family-centered and community-based approach. Since the Anglo-American child protection orientation is criticized internationally, it is useful to reflect on the South African lessons when considering system change. French Une dé cennie aprè s l’apartheid, la…
Overlooking the most vulnerable: The child welfare research agenda 2005–2010
Literature highlighting both the archaeology (chronology) of child welfare developments or genealogy (insight into the discourses shaping such developments) is rare. Even less available are investigations into the research agenda regarding child welfare. This paper attempts to provide a snapshot of the priorities for child welfare researchers as represented in the international literature from 2005 to 2010 and the discourses inherent within these…
The interaction of local and international child welfare agendas: A South African case
This article assesses the interaction between international and local influences in South African child welfare practice and education between 2001 and 2010. Based on a mixed methods study, it finds that the primary mechanism for international exchange occurred through funding. Professional imperialism continued to be evidenced in the domination of Northern agendas in local curricula and the lack of critical interrogation of external practices. A…
Social Service Workforce Strengthening in Sub-Saharan Africa
Both the Global North and South experience challenges regarding social service workforce development. The strengthening of the social service workforce in the South is hampered by a series of challenges. This paper draws on a recent qualitative study highlighting social service workforce developments in eight sub-Saharan countries from 2010 to 2015. A structured questionnaire including open- and close-ended questions was used to elicit data regar…
A History of the Present: Uncovering Discourses in (South African) Child Welfare
Foucault's analytical methods of archaeology and genealogy reveal that South African child welfare thinking cannot be clearly divided into an apartheid and post-apartheid epoch. Rather, this history of the present identifies that a Child Protection discourse continues to dominate current child welfare legislation and policies, both at a state and an agency level, even while the language of a Developmental Social Welfare discourse is utilised. The…
Developing Shared Knowledge: Family Group Conferencing as a Means of Negotiating Power in the Child Welfare System
Families engaged with the Anglo-American child welfare system frequently feel as though their own experiences, perspectives and needs are given less credence than those of child protection workers. While this is attributable to a range of factors, a central issue revolves around how and what information is obtained, interpreted and shared by those in the child welfare system as information sharing can be utilised by service providers as a means o…
Quo vadis? Trends in South African child welfare policies
English South African child welfare remains in transition a decade post-apartheid. Child Protection assumptions impede policy efforts towards a more intersectoral, holistic, strengths-based, family-centered and community-based approach. Since the Anglo-American child protection orientation is criticized internationally, it is useful to reflect on the South African lessons when considering system change. French Une dé cennie aprè s l’apartheid, la…
Transforming child and family services in urban communities in South Africa: Lessons from the South
Post‐apartheid, South African agencies have been required to shift their services in fundamental ways, including offering services in previously un‐resourced areas, honouring the rights of children and families, ensuring that users, staff and governing bodies are representative of the population and providing developmental social welfare services in place of child protection‐oriented interventions only. A study of urban South African child welfar…
The Canadian Social Work Review: A Canadian Character of Social Work
Noting that scholarly journals represent a particular repository of knowledge, we use content analysis to explore the constructions of social work represented in the Canadian Social Work Review – Revue canadienne de service social over 2010–2019. This journal is the only formal bilingual (French-English), peer-reviewed social work journal in the country. Rather than broadly reflecting Canadian realities and contexts, the emerging trends imply spe…
Soul Buddyz Clubs: A social development innovation
Soul Buddyz Clubs, centered on social mobilization and children’s rights, offer a model for developmental child welfare both in South Africa and further afield. Features of successful clubs and the way in which these enhance the lives of children, particularly in under-resourced areas, are highlighted
Quo vadis? Trends in South African child welfare policies
English South African child welfare remains in transition a decade post-apartheid. Child Protection assumptions impede policy efforts towards a more intersectoral, holistic, strengths-based, family-centered and community-based approach. Since the Anglo-American child protection orientation is criticized internationally, it is useful to reflect on the South African lessons when considering system change. French Une dé cennie aprè s l’apartheid, la…
Developing Shared Knowledge: Family Group Conferencing as a Means of Negotiating Power in the Child Welfare System
Families engaged with the Anglo-American child welfare system frequently feel as though their own experiences, perspectives and needs are given less credence than those of child protection workers. While this is attributable to a range of factors, a central issue revolves around how and what information is obtained, interpreted and shared by those in the child welfare system as information sharing can be utilised by service providers as a means o…
A History of the Present: Uncovering Discourses in (South African) Child Welfare
Foucault's analytical methods of archaeology and genealogy reveal that South African child welfare thinking cannot be clearly divided into an apartheid and post-apartheid epoch. Rather, this history of the present identifies that a Child Protection discourse continues to dominate current child welfare legislation and policies, both at a state and an agency level, even while the language of a Developmental Social Welfare discourse is utilised. The…
Soul Buddyz Clubs: A social development innovation
Soul Buddyz Clubs, centered on social mobilization and children’s rights, offer a model for developmental child welfare both in South Africa and further afield. Features of successful clubs and the way in which these enhance the lives of children, particularly in under-resourced areas, are highlighted
Overlooking the most vulnerable: The child welfare research agenda 2005–2010
Literature highlighting both the archaeology (chronology) of child welfare developments or genealogy (insight into the discourses shaping such developments) is rare. Even less available are investigations into the research agenda regarding child welfare. This paper attempts to provide a snapshot of the priorities for child welfare researchers as represented in the international literature from 2005 to 2010 and the discourses inherent within these…
The interaction of local and international child welfare agendas: A South African case
This article assesses the interaction between international and local influences in South African child welfare practice and education between 2001 and 2010. Based on a mixed methods study, it finds that the primary mechanism for international exchange occurred through funding. Professional imperialism continued to be evidenced in the domination of Northern agendas in local curricula and the lack of critical interrogation of external practices. A…
Transforming child and family services in urban communities in South Africa: Lessons from the South
Post‐apartheid, South African agencies have been required to shift their services in fundamental ways, including offering services in previously un‐resourced areas, honouring the rights of children and families, ensuring that users, staff and governing bodies are representative of the population and providing developmental social welfare services in place of child protection‐oriented interventions only. A study of urban South African child welfar…
Social Service Workforce Strengthening in Sub-Saharan Africa
Both the Global North and South experience challenges regarding social service workforce development. The strengthening of the social service workforce in the South is hampered by a series of challenges. This paper draws on a recent qualitative study highlighting social service workforce developments in eight sub-Saharan countries from 2010 to 2015. A structured questionnaire including open- and close-ended questions was used to elicit data regar…
Autoethnography: Locating the self as standpoint in post-apartheid South Africa
Transforming Social Work: Contextualised Social Work Education in South Africa
Despite significant transformation efforts in South African social welfare, social work education still inducts students into prevailing paradigms. Critics suggest that dominant social work is ineffective in that it is culturally inappropriate, marginalises other knowledges, overlooks structural issues, is expensive and is mismatched to local needs. The term “contextualised social work education” as used in this article incorporates the local foc…
In History’s Shadow: Child Welfare Discourses Regarding Indigenous Communities in the Canadian Social Work Journal
This article reviews all items in the Canadian Social Work journal over its almost 90-year history that relate to child welfare practice in an Indigenous context. We review the journal contents as a way of understanding the profession’s voice, noting that a journal’s discursive practice reflects disciplinary discourse and that this journal positioned itself as a platform for social work debates. Our analysis contributes also to the truth-telling …
Interrogating settler social work with indigenous persons in Canada
This article, towards decolonizing social work, reports on a study that examined the record of Canadian social work regarding Indigenous Canadians through the lens of the national professional association's journal. Noting that the broad dataset of over 1,500 journal articles represents legitimized knowledge within the discipline, the study aimed to develop a history of the present to interrogate the discourses relating to such practice. The stud…
Contextualized Social Work Education: A Critical Understanding of the Local
Because dominant social work is mismatched to many contexts, alternative practice and educational approaches have emerged. To highlight educational examples, this phenomenological study explores the experience of 28 Canadian and South African educators teaching alternative social work. These educators conceptualized a multidimensional, integrated, contextualized framework that attends to power and resistance, and extends critical social work educ…
Contextualized social work education in Canada: Understanding educators’ perspectives
Dominant Eurocentric social work practices and knowledges have been critiqued for perpetuating colonial perspectives, underlining social control aspects of social work, advancing individualism, ignoring a holistic understanding of issues, and overlooking collective approaches. Alternative practice examples are being documented but less attention has been paid to social work education. A phenomenological study with 15 Canadian social work educator…
The Canadian Social Work Review: A Canadian Character of Social Work
Noting that scholarly journals represent a particular repository of knowledge, we use content analysis to explore the constructions of social work represented in the Canadian Social Work Review – Revue canadienne de service social over 2010–2019. This journal is the only formal bilingual (French-English), peer-reviewed social work journal in the country. Rather than broadly reflecting Canadian realities and contexts, the emerging trends imply spe…
A reinterrogation of South African child welfare discourse: A case for decolonisation
Relying on discourse analysis and critical social work, this article explores the relevance of a decolonisation discourse to South African child welfare. A child welfare discourse of coloniality emerges from Australia, New Zealand and Canada. This emphasises the role that colonisation has played in eradicating indigenous persons or alternately assimilating subjugated populations to Western norms and sensibilities and maintains that coloniality pe…
A 40 year (contextualized) social work journey
Employing critical autoethnography, this article conveys how over my four decades of social work, I have come to adopt a contextualized social work stance and identifies what emerge as four key areas of contextualized social work. These include attention to race, ethnicity and culture as experienced in the local environment, the local articulation of social conditions and appropriate social work responses, the activation of local knowledge genera…
Social work's colonial past with Indigenous children and communities in Australia and Canada: A cross‐national comparison
This article offers a cross‐national comparison of social work in two countries, Australia and Canada, about the care of Indigenous children within the context of colonization and the evolving profession. The discussion is based on data from two empirical studies that examined professional discourse relating to the removal of Indigenous children from their families and Indigenous peoples more broadly within key historical time frames. The studies…
A community of practice approach for school-based developmental social work in South Africa: Reflections of social workers
This article reports on social worker reflections on the benefits and barriers of a multisectoral community of practice to improve child well-being for beneficiaries of the Child Support Grant in poor urban communities in Johannesburg, South Africa. The findings could inform cash plus school based social work policies and practice
Is “Good Social Work” Anti-oppressive practice: The mainstreaming of critical discourse
Anti-oppressive social work practice (AOP) has been advanced as a key progressive methodology for some decades. Standing in critical social work, it is founded on clear assumptions and includes several key strategies for implementation. At the same time, however, two factors, namely the alignment of the discourse of good (dominant) social work with social justice, and AOP theorists themselves not consistently distinguishing differences, has led t…
The value of sourcing social work journals for critical discourse analysis
Using the contents of journals has been an underutilized research approach in social work. Journal archives represent what has been legitimated in the discipline as well as what forms the dominant social work canon. To theorize about journal archival sourcing as a research method, we cite the limited extant examples, drawing out from these the methodology used. We then make a case for the value of journal mining and in particular from the vantage…
Social Work Journals and the Disciplinary Production of Alternative Knowledge(s)
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Progressive Human Services on April 10, 2024, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2024.2338312
Political science (20 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (16 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Social Work (12 works) · Social science (11 works) · Welfare (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Public relations (7 works)