A Crabtree
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 34680 |
|---|---|
| NOME | A Crabtree |
| PRENOMES | A |
| SOBRENOME | Crabtree |
| ASSINATURA | CRABTREE A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Bournemouth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8479-7066 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 91 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Balancing the books
Strongly emerging Indigenous methodologies have attracted researchers to employ diverse research paradigms within a moral commitment to conducting research based on ethical sensitivities and appropriate research protocols, as informed by research work with marginalized and unfamiliar groups including Indigenous Communities. However, adopting Indigenous methodological approaches may raise additional ethical considerations requiring a nuanced exami…
Epistemic hegemonies, Indigenous methodologies and the dialectic turn
This conceptual paper reflexively explores an emerging turn towards a dialectic engagement in the development of Indigenous methodologies, using insights from Bourdieu and Foucault in the deconstruction of discourses regarding hierarchies of positionalities, which are associated with the construction of epistemic authority. The paper draws on examples from the authors’ completed study with Indigenous communities in Costa Rica and Malaysia in expl…
Addressing competency requirements of social work students during the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia
COVID-19 resulted in massive disruption and changes in every aspect of our lives. To curb the spread of the virus, many governments limited the movement of people or imposed full ‘lockdowns’. This created significant challenges for social workers practising with people often reliant on interpersonal support such as those at risk of domestic abuse; with mental health problems or learning disabilities. Measures to reduce viral spread affected the e…
Applying an Indigenous methodology to a North–South, cross-cultural collaboration
This article represents our collective reflexivity in the process of applying an Indigenous methodology in a North–South, cross-cultural collaboration, funded through the British Government’s Global Challenges Research Fund. The projects’ aim was to bring together Bribri and Jakun leaders (from Costa Rica and Malaysia) for constructive dialogues about sustainable development. Specifically, we applied ulàpeitök (traditional form of Bribri collabor…
Playing Mother
Gender discrimination in the academy globally is widely recognized in terms of faculty ranking and career progression rates. U.K. national data notes the lower research recognition of women scholars as well as gendered pay gaps. This article reports on a qualitative study of women academics across discipline groups at a British post-1992 corporate university. Focus group discussion findings suggest that gendered career pathways are implicated in …
Social Work with Disadvantaged and Marginalised People
Social workers, whatever their specialism, practise with people at the margins of society. It is therefore essential that all social work students not only understand the powers and processes that lead to disadvantage and marginalisation but develop the knowledge and skills needed to bring about change and uphold social justice in all aspects of their professional practice. Split into three parts, this book considers what is meant by disadvantage…
Development as eradication
The political rhetoric of social and economic development in Malaysia is used as a dominant and largely unquestioned discourse to justify the industrialized exploitation of the traditional territories of the indigenous people of West Malaysia. This article explores social policy drivers in respect of findings from a condensed ethnography of the Jakun Orang Asli people of Tasik Chini in the State of Pahang. Tasik Chini provides an important exampl…
Loaded dice
This paper explores the perceptions and experiences of women academics in the UK, participating in a small-scale qualitative study exploring career progression and encountered institutional obstacles. The accounts are considered in terms of both disadvantageous institutional strategies and interpersonal ones governing day-to-day working relationships. The findings contribute to a growing body of international research on gender constructions in t…
Problematizing the context and construction of vulnerability and risk in relation to British Muslim ME groups
British Muslim minority ethnic (ME) groups are perceived as holding values and beliefs distinctively different from the rest of multicultural UK. Vulnerability in these groups relates to existing material and social conditions and is contrasted to the perceived risks to British society and the State posed by religio-ethnic separatism. Such dichotomies create new textures and layers to familiar but complex concepts of vulnerability in social work.…
Typologies of student experiences and constructed meanings of learning in international placements
This article discusses findings from a three-year British Council-funded project into social work student placements in Malaysia. Processes of student learning in unfamiliar cultural contexts were examined in relation to three cohorts of students. Here typologies of experience influencing learning, elicited from student-recorded data, are discussed. Analysis suggests that students undergo a process of liminality, adjustment or resistance to the c…
Growing Up Female in Multi-Ethnic Malaysia
Covert research and adult protection and safeguarding
Purpose – This paper aims to consider the contentious issue of covert research in studying the social contexts of vulnerable groups. It explores its potential utility in areas where overt strategies may be problematic or denied; and examines and problematises the issue of participant consent. Design/methodology/approach – Using a literature-based review and selected previous studies, the paper explores the uses and abuses of covert research in re…
Problematising international placements as a site of intercultural learning
This paper theorises some of the learning outcomes of a three-year project concerning student learning in international social work placements in Malaysia. The problematic issue of promoting cultural and intercultural competence through such placements is examined, where overlapping hegemonies are discussed in terms of isomorphism of social work models, that of the nation state, together with those relating to professional values and knowledge, a…
Fish Need Bicycles
The social work regulatory body in England, the General Social Care Council (GSCC), report the predominance of female professionals, where 77 per cent of registered social workers in 2009–10 were female. The disparity is even greater among social work students, with male enrolments declining from 16 per cent in 2006–07 to 13 per cent in 2007–08. The low proportion of male enrolments is of concern to the GSCC, who wish to encourage gender balance …
Ah Cha'! The Racial Discrimination of Pakistani Minority Communities in Hong Kong
Racial discrimination towards minority ethnic (ME) groups in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) is argued to be endemic. This paper considers research studies focusing on this issue as extended to the Pakistani community, which appear to constitute in part a general xenophobia towards certain ME groups. In addition, the authors contribute findings from an ethnographic study of low-income Pakistani families in Hong Kong, offering narr…
Liminality and learning
This article reports findings from a collaborative study of UK student learning in Malaysia. We analyze the concept of liminality as a means of understanding the transitional process between states and statuses that social work students experience in practice learning. Here, in specific reference to immersion in new cultural contexts represented by international placements, the development and learning of students are explored in relation to the …
Research Ethics and the Moral Enterprise of Ethnography
This paper explores the perceptions and experiences of four doctoral researchers to examine how research ethics committee (REC) processes have shaped and influenced specific health-based ethnographic studies. This paper considers how a universal tightening of ethical REC scrutiny at university level, as well as those governing the health and social care sector in the United Kingdom, impacts upon social research involving the inclusion of particip…
Epiphanies and learning in a postcolonial Malaysian context
This article discusses preliminary findings from a study of international placement learning of British social work students in social welfare settings in Malaysia. Research data generated focuses on the learning processes experienced by the students placed in an unfamiliar, postcolonial context with an emphasis on issues relating to diversity and developing critical cultural competence. Future sustainability and benefits of such placements are a…
Within, Without
Religion and Gender is the first peer-reviewed, international journal for the systematic study of gender and religion in an interdisciplinary perspective. The journal explores the relation, confrontation and intersection of gender and religion, taking into account the multiple and changing manifestations of religion in diverse social and cultural contexts. It analyses and reflects critically on gender in its interpretative and imaginative dimensi…
Ethical implications for research into inclusive education in Arab societies
Inclusive education in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Arab societies is at a developmental stage with a paucity of research data recording this process. To clarify an obscure topic an online survey was conducted targeting 48 agencies in the GCC offering rehabilitation for children with disabilities and their families. Although the response rate was statistically disappointing, the outcome of the study nevertheless offers insights into the cha…
Barriers Militating Against the Social Inclusion of Low-Income Pakistani Minority Groups in Hong Kong
Research findings from an ethnographic study into low-income Pakistani families in Hong Kong indicate the existence of significant barriers in society militating against social inclusion. Racial discrimination contributes to marginalization, reducing life opportunities. Identified problems include educational, linguistic, and employment issues. These factors lead to social exclusion and weakened social capital
Gendered discourses of coping strategies and perceived cultural challenges for low-income Pakistani families in Hong Kong, SAR
This paper discusses findings from a small scale qualitative study of low-income Pakistani families resident in Hong Kong, SAR. The greatest assistance for most families was access to the state social security benefit system. Yet, this was also viewed in ambivalent terms when interpreted within a traditional and gendered discourse revolving around challenges to patriarchal authority. State benefits were viewed as an attractive, if subversive reso…
Quality assurance and certification in ecotourism
Achieving Quality in Ecotourism: Tools in the Tool Box * Green and Gold? Awards for Excellence in Australian Tourism: Promoting Quality and Sustainability to the Tourism Industry * 'No better than a band-aid for a bullet wound!': The Effectiveness of Tourism Codes of Conduct * SmartVoyager: Protecting the Galapagos Islands * Green Globe 21: a Global Environmental Certification Program for Travel & Tourism * Sustainability Indicators for Ecotouris…
Culture, Gender and the Influence of Social Change amongst Emirati Families in the United Arab Emirates
This paper discusses findings from a small-scale qualitative pilot study exploring the family structure of Emirati families in the United Arab Emirates. Here four Emirati families participating in the study discuss the effects of rapid social change across the generations and the perceived influence of these upon the roles and responsibilities of men and women in contemporary society in relation to child-rearing practices. Parental expectations f…
Family responses to the social inclusion of children with developmental disabilities in the United Arab Emirates
This paper focuses on findings from a qualitative study of care‐giving Arab Muslim families of children with developmental disabilities in the United Arab Emirates. The perceptions of mothers in relation to family acceptance and social inclusion issues are explored. Parental views of existing provision are also considered with regard to existing services for children with special needs in the region. Findings indicate that, in common with other M…
Ah Cha'! The Racial Discrimination of Pakistani Minority Communities in Hong Kong
Racial discrimination towards minority ethnic (ME) groups in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) is argued to be endemic. This paper considers research studies focusing on this issue as extended to the Pakistani community, which appear to constitute in part a general xenophobia towards certain ME groups. In addition, the authors contribute findings from an ethnographic study of low-income Pakistani families in Hong Kong, offering narr…
Epiphanies and learning in a postcolonial Malaysian context
This article discusses preliminary findings from a study of international placement learning of British social work students in social welfare settings in Malaysia. Research data generated focuses on the learning processes experienced by the students placed in an unfamiliar, postcolonial context with an emphasis on issues relating to diversity and developing critical cultural competence. Future sustainability and benefits of such placements are a…
Within, Without
Religion and Gender is the first peer-reviewed, international journal for the systematic study of gender and religion in an interdisciplinary perspective. The journal explores the relation, confrontation and intersection of gender and religion, taking into account the multiple and changing manifestations of religion in diverse social and cultural contexts. It analyses and reflects critically on gender in its interpretative and imaginative dimensi…
Culture, Gender and the Influence of Social Change amongst Emirati Families in the United Arab Emirates
This paper discusses findings from a small-scale qualitative pilot study exploring the family structure of Emirati families in the United Arab Emirates. Here four Emirati families participating in the study discuss the effects of rapid social change across the generations and the perceived influence of these upon the roles and responsibilities of men and women in contemporary society in relation to child-rearing practices. Parental expectations f…
Family responses to the social inclusion of children with developmental disabilities in the United Arab Emirates
This paper focuses on findings from a qualitative study of care‐giving Arab Muslim families of children with developmental disabilities in the United Arab Emirates. The perceptions of mothers in relation to family acceptance and social inclusion issues are explored. Parental views of existing provision are also considered with regard to existing services for children with special needs in the region. Findings indicate that, in common with other M…
Playing Mother
Gender discrimination in the academy globally is widely recognized in terms of faculty ranking and career progression rates. U.K. national data notes the lower research recognition of women scholars as well as gendered pay gaps. This article reports on a qualitative study of women academics across discipline groups at a British post-1992 corporate university. Focus group discussion findings suggest that gendered career pathways are implicated in …
Loaded dice
This paper explores the perceptions and experiences of women academics in the UK, participating in a small-scale qualitative study exploring career progression and encountered institutional obstacles. The accounts are considered in terms of both disadvantageous institutional strategies and interpersonal ones governing day-to-day working relationships. The findings contribute to a growing body of international research on gender constructions in t…
Covert research and adult protection and safeguarding
Purpose – This paper aims to consider the contentious issue of covert research in studying the social contexts of vulnerable groups. It explores its potential utility in areas where overt strategies may be problematic or denied; and examines and problematises the issue of participant consent. Design/methodology/approach – Using a literature-based review and selected previous studies, the paper explores the uses and abuses of covert research in re…
Gendered discourses of coping strategies and perceived cultural challenges for low-income Pakistani families in Hong Kong, SAR
This paper discusses findings from a small scale qualitative study of low-income Pakistani families resident in Hong Kong, SAR. The greatest assistance for most families was access to the state social security benefit system. Yet, this was also viewed in ambivalent terms when interpreted within a traditional and gendered discourse revolving around challenges to patriarchal authority. State benefits were viewed as an attractive, if subversive reso…
Mental health and citizenship in Malaysia
Throughout the last 40 years of the development of Malaysian nationhood, the needs of people marginalized by attitudes towards mental illnesses have been inadequately addressed. This article explores the concept of citizenship in relation to social rights and social inclusion within the context of the ‘caring society’
Growing Up Female in Multi-Ethnic Malaysia
Fish Need Bicycles
The social work regulatory body in England, the General Social Care Council (GSCC), report the predominance of female professionals, where 77 per cent of registered social workers in 2009–10 were female. The disparity is even greater among social work students, with male enrolments declining from 16 per cent in 2006–07 to 13 per cent in 2007–08. The low proportion of male enrolments is of concern to the GSCC, who wish to encourage gender balance …
Barriers Militating Against the Social Inclusion of Low-Income Pakistani Minority Groups in Hong Kong
Research findings from an ethnographic study into low-income Pakistani families in Hong Kong indicate the existence of significant barriers in society militating against social inclusion. Racial discrimination contributes to marginalization, reducing life opportunities. Identified problems include educational, linguistic, and employment issues. These factors lead to social exclusion and weakened social capital
Problematising international placements as a site of intercultural learning
This paper theorises some of the learning outcomes of a three-year project concerning student learning in international social work placements in Malaysia. The problematic issue of promoting cultural and intercultural competence through such placements is examined, where overlapping hegemonies are discussed in terms of isomorphism of social work models, that of the nation state, together with those relating to professional values and knowledge, a…
Research Ethics and the Moral Enterprise of Ethnography
This paper explores the perceptions and experiences of four doctoral researchers to examine how research ethics committee (REC) processes have shaped and influenced specific health-based ethnographic studies. This paper considers how a universal tightening of ethical REC scrutiny at university level, as well as those governing the health and social care sector in the United Kingdom, impacts upon social research involving the inclusion of particip…
Ethical implications for research into inclusive education in Arab societies
Inclusive education in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Arab societies is at a developmental stage with a paucity of research data recording this process. To clarify an obscure topic an online survey was conducted targeting 48 agencies in the GCC offering rehabilitation for children with disabilities and their families. Although the response rate was statistically disappointing, the outcome of the study nevertheless offers insights into the cha…
Medical social work in Malaysia
Hospital social work in Malaysia holds an important position compared with other areas of social work. Alliances with medicine are pro.table in raising the pro.le of the profession. But the lack of community services, medical hierarchy and staff shortages militate against further regional development of the social work role. French En malaisie, le travail social hospitalier occupe une place importante comparativement à d'autres domaines du travai…
Balancing the books
Strongly emerging Indigenous methodologies have attracted researchers to employ diverse research paradigms within a moral commitment to conducting research based on ethical sensitivities and appropriate research protocols, as informed by research work with marginalized and unfamiliar groups including Indigenous Communities. However, adopting Indigenous methodological approaches may raise additional ethical considerations requiring a nuanced exami…
Development as eradication
The political rhetoric of social and economic development in Malaysia is used as a dominant and largely unquestioned discourse to justify the industrialized exploitation of the traditional territories of the indigenous people of West Malaysia. This article explores social policy drivers in respect of findings from a condensed ethnography of the Jakun Orang Asli people of Tasik Chini in the State of Pahang. Tasik Chini provides an important exampl…
Typologies of student experiences and constructed meanings of learning in international placements
This article discusses findings from a three-year British Council-funded project into social work student placements in Malaysia. Processes of student learning in unfamiliar cultural contexts were examined in relation to three cohorts of students. Here typologies of experience influencing learning, elicited from student-recorded data, are discussed. Analysis suggests that students undergo a process of liminality, adjustment or resistance to the c…
Liminality and learning
This article reports findings from a collaborative study of UK student learning in Malaysia. We analyze the concept of liminality as a means of understanding the transitional process between states and statuses that social work students experience in practice learning. Here, in specific reference to immersion in new cultural contexts represented by international placements, the development and learning of students are explored in relation to the …
Exclusion and Stigma
This paper focuses on care-giving families of psychiatric service-users in Kuching, Sarawak. Issues of marginalization and dynamics of exclusion of families are explored in relation to Labelling theory and multi-cultural interpretations of mental illnesses
Mental health and citizenship in Malaysia
Throughout the last 40 years of the development of Malaysian nationhood, the needs of people marginalized by attitudes towards mental illnesses have been inadequately addressed. This article explores the concept of citizenship in relation to social rights and social inclusion within the context of the ‘caring society’
Community Participatory Approaches to Dengue Prevention in Sarawak, Malaysia
This paper covers preliminary findings from a participatory action research (PAR) project into dengue prevention in Sarawak, Malaysia, which formed one part of a national, multisite study. The objectives of the project in Sarawak were to reduce a high Aedes mosquito index and associated risk of dengue in two coastal Malay villages, using behavior modification strategies through a community participatory approach. The approach has achieved a reduc…
Strategies of Social and Sexual Control of Malaysian Women in Psychiatric Institutional Care
An ethnographic study of female psychiatric patients was undertaken in East Malaysia. Findings indicate that these service users were subject to a number of sexist and oppressive practices that militate against their freedom of movement on the wards as well as their social interaction in the wider context of the hospital. Stereotypic notions of female sexuality and morality act as forms of moral containment and are interpreted in the hospital con…
Medication, healing and resistance in East Malaysia
This paper considers some findings from an ethnographic study of psychiatric patients in hospital care in East Malaysia. The subject of treatment is considered with regard to professional attitudes towards patient ‘compliance’ and the demonstration of resistance by users within a multicultural context in which traditional healing continues to be a popular alternative to biomedicine. ‘Resistance’ here is used in its literal meaning, rather than as…
Malaysian Women Service Users and the Economics of the Psychiatric Asylum System
Findings from an ethnographic study of women psychiatric service users in Sarawak, Malaysia, indicate that they are subject to a host of oppressive strategies that operate in terms of physical control of women’s mobility and activities. These directly impact on the exploitation of women’s labour in the hospital setting. Labour is considered in relation to rehabilitative activities such as occupational therapy, unpaid ward chores and the exclusion…
Medical social work in Malaysia
Hospital social work in Malaysia holds an important position compared with other areas of social work. Alliances with medicine are pro.table in raising the pro.le of the profession. But the lack of community services, medical hierarchy and staff shortages militate against further regional development of the social work role. French En malaisie, le travail social hospitalier occupe une place importante comparativement à d'autres domaines du travai…
Family responses to the social inclusion of children with developmental disabilities in the United Arab Emirates
This paper focuses on findings from a qualitative study of care‐giving Arab Muslim families of children with developmental disabilities in the United Arab Emirates. The perceptions of mothers in relation to family acceptance and social inclusion issues are explored. Parental views of existing provision are also considered with regard to existing services for children with special needs in the region. Findings indicate that, in common with other M…
Quality assurance and certification in ecotourism
Achieving Quality in Ecotourism: Tools in the Tool Box * Green and Gold? Awards for Excellence in Australian Tourism: Promoting Quality and Sustainability to the Tourism Industry * 'No better than a band-aid for a bullet wound!': The Effectiveness of Tourism Codes of Conduct * SmartVoyager: Protecting the Galapagos Islands * Green Globe 21: a Global Environmental Certification Program for Travel & Tourism * Sustainability Indicators for Ecotouris…
Culture, Gender and the Influence of Social Change amongst Emirati Families in the United Arab Emirates
This paper discusses findings from a small-scale qualitative pilot study exploring the family structure of Emirati families in the United Arab Emirates. Here four Emirati families participating in the study discuss the effects of rapid social change across the generations and the perceived influence of these upon the roles and responsibilities of men and women in contemporary society in relation to child-rearing practices. Parental expectations f…
Barriers Militating Against the Social Inclusion of Low-Income Pakistani Minority Groups in Hong Kong
Research findings from an ethnographic study into low-income Pakistani families in Hong Kong indicate the existence of significant barriers in society militating against social inclusion. Racial discrimination contributes to marginalization, reducing life opportunities. Identified problems include educational, linguistic, and employment issues. These factors lead to social exclusion and weakened social capital
Gendered discourses of coping strategies and perceived cultural challenges for low-income Pakistani families in Hong Kong, SAR
This paper discusses findings from a small scale qualitative study of low-income Pakistani families resident in Hong Kong, SAR. The greatest assistance for most families was access to the state social security benefit system. Yet, this was also viewed in ambivalent terms when interpreted within a traditional and gendered discourse revolving around challenges to patriarchal authority. State benefits were viewed as an attractive, if subversive reso…
Ethical implications for research into inclusive education in Arab societies
Inclusive education in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Arab societies is at a developmental stage with a paucity of research data recording this process. To clarify an obscure topic an online survey was conducted targeting 48 agencies in the GCC offering rehabilitation for children with disabilities and their families. Although the response rate was statistically disappointing, the outcome of the study nevertheless offers insights into the cha…
Liminality and learning
This article reports findings from a collaborative study of UK student learning in Malaysia. We analyze the concept of liminality as a means of understanding the transitional process between states and statuses that social work students experience in practice learning. Here, in specific reference to immersion in new cultural contexts represented by international placements, the development and learning of students are explored in relation to the …
Research Ethics and the Moral Enterprise of Ethnography
This paper explores the perceptions and experiences of four doctoral researchers to examine how research ethics committee (REC) processes have shaped and influenced specific health-based ethnographic studies. This paper considers how a universal tightening of ethical REC scrutiny at university level, as well as those governing the health and social care sector in the United Kingdom, impacts upon social research involving the inclusion of particip…
Epiphanies and learning in a postcolonial Malaysian context
This article discusses preliminary findings from a study of international placement learning of British social work students in social welfare settings in Malaysia. Research data generated focuses on the learning processes experienced by the students placed in an unfamiliar, postcolonial context with an emphasis on issues relating to diversity and developing critical cultural competence. Future sustainability and benefits of such placements are a…
Within, Without
Religion and Gender is the first peer-reviewed, international journal for the systematic study of gender and religion in an interdisciplinary perspective. The journal explores the relation, confrontation and intersection of gender and religion, taking into account the multiple and changing manifestations of religion in diverse social and cultural contexts. It analyses and reflects critically on gender in its interpretative and imaginative dimensi…
Ah Cha'! The Racial Discrimination of Pakistani Minority Communities in Hong Kong
Racial discrimination towards minority ethnic (ME) groups in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) is argued to be endemic. This paper considers research studies focusing on this issue as extended to the Pakistani community, which appear to constitute in part a general xenophobia towards certain ME groups. In addition, the authors contribute findings from an ethnographic study of low-income Pakistani families in Hong Kong, offering narr…
Covert research and adult protection and safeguarding
Purpose – This paper aims to consider the contentious issue of covert research in studying the social contexts of vulnerable groups. It explores its potential utility in areas where overt strategies may be problematic or denied; and examines and problematises the issue of participant consent. Design/methodology/approach – Using a literature-based review and selected previous studies, the paper explores the uses and abuses of covert research in re…
Problematising international placements as a site of intercultural learning
This paper theorises some of the learning outcomes of a three-year project concerning student learning in international social work placements in Malaysia. The problematic issue of promoting cultural and intercultural competence through such placements is examined, where overlapping hegemonies are discussed in terms of isomorphism of social work models, that of the nation state, together with those relating to professional values and knowledge, a…
Fish Need Bicycles
The social work regulatory body in England, the General Social Care Council (GSCC), report the predominance of female professionals, where 77 per cent of registered social workers in 2009–10 were female. The disparity is even greater among social work students, with male enrolments declining from 16 per cent in 2006–07 to 13 per cent in 2007–08. The low proportion of male enrolments is of concern to the GSCC, who wish to encourage gender balance …
Typologies of student experiences and constructed meanings of learning in international placements
This article discusses findings from a three-year British Council-funded project into social work student placements in Malaysia. Processes of student learning in unfamiliar cultural contexts were examined in relation to three cohorts of students. Here typologies of experience influencing learning, elicited from student-recorded data, are discussed. Analysis suggests that students undergo a process of liminality, adjustment or resistance to the c…
Growing Up Female in Multi-Ethnic Malaysia
Problematizing the context and construction of vulnerability and risk in relation to British Muslim ME groups
British Muslim minority ethnic (ME) groups are perceived as holding values and beliefs distinctively different from the rest of multicultural UK. Vulnerability in these groups relates to existing material and social conditions and is contrasted to the perceived risks to British society and the State posed by religio-ethnic separatism. Such dichotomies create new textures and layers to familiar but complex concepts of vulnerability in social work.…
Social Work with Disadvantaged and Marginalised People
Social workers, whatever their specialism, practise with people at the margins of society. It is therefore essential that all social work students not only understand the powers and processes that lead to disadvantage and marginalisation but develop the knowledge and skills needed to bring about change and uphold social justice in all aspects of their professional practice. Split into three parts, this book considers what is meant by disadvantage…
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