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ERIC Number: EJ656222
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0701
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Native People and the Social Work Profession: A Critical Exploration of Colonizing Problematics and the Development of Decolonized Thought.
Waterfall, Barbara
Journal of Educational Thought/Revue de la Pensee Educative lc v36 n2 p149-166 Aug 2002
Discusses relationship between the social work profession and indigenous populations living in colonial Canada. Examines characteristics of Eurocentrism and historical and ongoing colonial processes, and implicates the profession of social work as a colonizing practice. Urges native people to disengage from current neo-colonial and constitutional colonial politics in favor of decolonized, anti-colonial initiatives. (Contains 30 references.) (AUTH/NB)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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