The Non-Indigenous Educator Teaching Australian Aboriginal Content in Social Work Education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11957950 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Bennett (0000-0002-0111-4670, College of Human and Social Futures, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 455-467 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-10 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0312-407X • E-ISSN: 1447-0748 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0312407x.2022.2105164 |
| OpenAlex | W4292639888 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 10 |
Social work in Australia requires educators to teach skills, knowledge, and Aboriginal ways of knowing, doing, and being to ensure graduates are culturally responsive and potential allies when working with Aboriginal peoples and communities. This education should include an accurate teaching of Australian Aboriginal history and sharing of Aboriginal knowledge. Currently, non-Aboriginal educators are more likely to teach Aboriginal content, which can foreclose opportunities for Aboriginal educators. On the surface this appears to be a continuation of colonialism where white privileged groups speak for, speak about, and occupy, in this instance, the educational spaces related to Australian Aboriginal peoples and other minority racial groups. This occupation of the educational space in social work is an interesting predicament when considering whether social work educators are allies to the processes of decolonisation. This article explores the experiences of non-Aboriginal educators and asks the question—how do we decolonise social work to create culturally responsive practitioners? IMPLICATIONSUniversities need to be aware of and address the continuation of colonising practices in teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content.There is the potential to create a transformative future in social work education with the sharing of two world views
Colonialism · Decolonization · Indigenous · Indigenous Education · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transformative learning · Work (physics · Gender Studies · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Service-Learning and Community Engagement · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work
Transformative learning theory
Thematic analysis.
Creating a Culturally Safe Space When Teaching Aboriginal Content in Social Work
Which way? Talking culture, talking race’
Aboriginal Social Work Academics
Australian Social Work
Teaching about race and racism in social work
Indigenous Pedagogy as a Force for Change
| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |