Pub Date : 2023-05-17DOI: 10.1080/0312407X.2023.2186256
J. Prehn, M. Walter
ABSTRACT In this article we argue that in Australian social work context and practice, Indigenous Data Sovereignty (ID-SOV) needs to be operationalised by enacting the principles of Indigenous Data Governance (ID-GOV). Failure to embed ID-SOV and ID-GOV leaves the profession open to claims that it is complicit in disempowering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in relation to data. ID-SOV is a global movement focused on Indigenous Peoples having access to, and ownership, control, and possession of, their data. Social work is a profession committed to championing equal rights and challenging injustices. Therefore, it has an obligation to decolonise existing data structures in its workplaces. This article outlines the Australian ID-SOV movement, including current scholarship on operationalising ID-SOV in the form of ID-GOV, and the challenge for social work to position itself in alliance with the ID-SOV movement and in active participation in changing the way Indigenous data have traditionally been collected and used in Australia IMPLICATIONS The Indigenous Data Sovereignty (ID-SOV) movement demands the data rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and is re-shaping the Australian data landscape. If social work is true to its stated commitment to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander self-determination, the profession needs to engage with ID-SOV and work to operationalise Indigenous Data Governance (ID-GOV) across social work environments. A particular focus of this article is the importance of ID-SOV and ID-GOV being operationalised within social work research and policy in areas such as “child protection”, the criminal justice system, health and wellbeing, and housing.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-11DOI: 10.1080/0312407x.2023.2205850
Sophie Goldingay
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Pub Date : 2023-05-10DOI: 10.1080/0312407X.2023.2207559
W. Hermeston
ABSTRACT Major permanency planning-based reforms transformed the New South Wales (NSW) out-of-home care (care) system between 2012 and 2022, in the face of strong, sustained opposition from First Peoples. Permanency, attachment and related notions, including the best interests of the child are all constructs central to permanency planning and crucial factors in judicial decision-making about children’s permanent care arrangements. Doctoral research conducted by the author, a Wiradjuri legal scholar, explored Aboriginal community member understandings of these concepts. With a focus on restoration, this article provides a critical commentary on aspects of the legislative changes implemented in NSW. Outlining literature relating to the reforms, the author notes the substantial lack of evidence from First Nations’ perspectives in support of the legislative changes made. Implications for both First Peoples and for social work are discussed. The article seeks to prompt reflection by social workers on how such evidence vacuums can cause harm to First Nations children and young people in statutory care. Social work spheres within child welfare and associated scholarship must centre First Peoples’ knowledge and experiences. If not, crucial conceptual and practice-related issues will remain poorly understood and profound child welfare system-related trauma caused to First Nations children and families will be perpetuated. IMPLICATIONS System reform relating to permanent care arrangements of First Nations children and young people must be grounded in First Nations-led evidence, including on permanency and attachment, and it must centre First Peoples’ perspectives and lived experience. Understanding and taking into account the perspectives of First Peoples is an important action social workers and other practitioners from non-Indigenous backgrounds must take in supporting First Nations children and families involved in care matters. Hence, there is a need for critical reflection in the social work sphere, about how child protection policies and legislation may benefit, or create harm to, First Nations communities. Advocacy for systems change is an important action social workers can take, when governments propose policies that First Peoples view as detrimental to support the long-term wellbeing of First Nations children.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-10DOI: 10.1080/0312407x.2023.2199424
Charmayne Fleming, Shirley L. Young, J. Else, Libby Hammond, H. McLaren
ABSTRACT Many social workers engage in Yarning and truth-telling. This worldview is important considering that Australian social work literature is historically informed by white western thought. This white lens has obstructed the self-determination of Aboriginal social workers and their communities. We came together as Aboriginal social workers and non-Aboriginal allies. Our authorship engaged dialogue and Dadirri (deep listening) with one another in reciprocal relationships. We thematically analysed, reordered, and preserved our Yarn in written text. Yarning with the use of Dadirri respected oral traditions of knowledge sharing and, in itself, was a decolonising act. Our aim to document Aboriginal knowledge and experience as social workers through Yarning, involved truth-telling about social work, social work learning, expertise, and practice. IMPLICATIONS A priority for decolonisation in social work is to value Yarning as a significant feature of knowledge sharing and a legitimate form of authorship. Decolonising social work requires things to be done differently, e.g., prioritising Indigenous social workers in developing frameworks for education and practice, and leading the implementation of these frameworks.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-07DOI: 10.1080/0312407X.2023.2203116
Joleen Ryan, Jesse Ivelja
ABSTRACT Education and knowledge sharing has a long and rich history within Australia prior to, and since invasion. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have always been committed to truth telling and ways of knowing, being, and doing. The process of decolonisation through the implementation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges and pedagogy is an ongoing commitment in higher education settings and is especially relevant in social work education and practices. Social work has historically been complicit in the oppression and genocide of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and, as a result, continues to struggle to define itself within an Australian context. Through our experiences in higher education settings, we have found the process of decolonising education practices in social work to be challenging but necessary. This review aims to explore and reflect upon current literature that addresses western-centric social work pedagogical practice in Australia and aims to incorporate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander epistemologies using a positional and narrative lens. IMPLICATIONS Engaging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges and pedagogy decolonises social work education and practice. Decolonising social work pedagogy positions social work practice to reflect on the intersectionality of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples without othering within contemporary Australia. Positioning social work education within an Indigenous pedagogical framework provides a basis for future teaching practices and knowledge sharing.
{"title":"Indigenisation, (De)Colonisation, and Whiteness: Dismantling Social Work Education","authors":"Joleen Ryan, Jesse Ivelja","doi":"10.1080/0312407X.2023.2203116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2023.2203116","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Education and knowledge sharing has a long and rich history within Australia prior to, and since invasion. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have always been committed to truth telling and ways of knowing, being, and doing. The process of decolonisation through the implementation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges and pedagogy is an ongoing commitment in higher education settings and is especially relevant in social work education and practices. Social work has historically been complicit in the oppression and genocide of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and, as a result, continues to struggle to define itself within an Australian context. Through our experiences in higher education settings, we have found the process of decolonising education practices in social work to be challenging but necessary. This review aims to explore and reflect upon current literature that addresses western-centric social work pedagogical practice in Australia and aims to incorporate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander epistemologies using a positional and narrative lens. IMPLICATIONS Engaging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges and pedagogy decolonises social work education and practice. Decolonising social work pedagogy positions social work practice to reflect on the intersectionality of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples without othering within contemporary Australia. Positioning social work education within an Indigenous pedagogical framework provides a basis for future teaching practices and knowledge sharing.","PeriodicalId":47275,"journal":{"name":"Australian Social Work","volume":"76 1","pages":"300 - 314"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45325157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-30DOI: 10.1080/0312407x.2023.2193831
Stephanie Azri, M. Wyder, J. Cartmel
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Pub Date : 2023-04-26DOI: 10.1080/0312407X.2023.2193166
Mishel McMahon, M. Chisholm, Aldara Yenara, Tanya Garling, Werner Vogels, Julia van Vuuren, C. Modderman
ABSTRACT While Aboriginal youth mentoring has been used as a teaching process for thousands of years and the tradition continues, little attention has been paid to documenting what elements make learning experiences transformational. As part of the evaluation of the Aldara Yenara mentoring program, this Aboriginal-led scoping review examined literature about transformational mentoring programs from Canada, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to understand their key elements and provide guidance for future research and practice. The use of relational mapping was applied in an attempt to locate literature written by Aboriginal scholars including grey literature. Twenty-seven documents were reviewed including 20 from the peer-reviewed literature and seven acquired through the relational mapping. A total of 13 met the inclusion criteria, predominantly written by non-Aboriginal authors. Four distinct themes emerged and informed our narrative synthesis. Absent in this material, largely neither led nor owned by Aboriginal people, was any reference to connection to Country as central to Aboriginal transformational healing programs. Without Aboriginal leadership, communication and processes in these programs, there was a failure to draw on Aboriginal understandings of healing spaces. From here on in, research and practice in this area must be Aboriginal-led to ensure deeper, Aboriginal-informed understandings for First Nations transformational mentoring programs. IMPLICATIONS Existing youth mentoring literature is dominated by western understandings and perceptions. Thus, it often fails to offer the nuanced benefits of Aboriginal youth holding or growing their relationship to Country for their wellbeing and personal development Mentoring programs that are culturally strong from First Nations worldviews are key to providing transformational experiences: that is, cultural connectedness encourages, motivates, and creates healing spaces for Aboriginal youth While social work has facilitated normative western narratives for youth and their wellbeing, future Aboriginal mentoring program need to be both led and evaluated by First Nations people.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-26DOI: 10.1080/0312407x.2023.2193169
Trevor G. Gates
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Pub Date : 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1080/0312407x.2023.2193175
N. Boaden, Jung‐Sook Lee, Therese M. Cumming
{"title":"Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and Social Work Practice in Australia: A Narrative Literature Review","authors":"N. Boaden, Jung‐Sook Lee, Therese M. Cumming","doi":"10.1080/0312407x.2023.2193175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407x.2023.2193175","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47275,"journal":{"name":"Australian Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45907344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-17DOI: 10.1080/0312407X.2023.2193168
L. Muller
Decolonisation has become a fashionable word. A jingoistic mantra repeated because it sounds grand, and one that can be misused and distorted to further colonise and strengthen colonisation. Trendy words occur in academic writing, commonly used, yet rarely defined, and embraced without being fully understood. Words like “decolonisation” have been appropriated, taken from legitimate scholars and used as a metaphor by “experts” in positions of power to further reinforce the colonialist social structures, intellectual agendas, and workspaces (Tuck & Yang, 2012). In my view, blithely or intentionally, academic articles, research funding applications, and media rhetoric can sometimes be scripted using trendy key words to progress agendas that on the surface looks reasonable, yet do not reflect the intent of words used. Decolonisation is one such word. The intention in writing this short commentary is to promote interest in further reading about, and respectful use of the word and movement that is “Decolonisation”.
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