Teaching Aboriginal content in social work education presents risks of retraumatisation for
students. There are international calls for a trauma-informed teaching model that creates …

But why 'whiteness'? We are using the idea of whiteness deliberately, to emphasise that the
dominance of Western knowledge systems is inherently racialised. The colonialist project …

Social work is a profession based on (White) Euro-American concepts, problems and
historicity in which Indigenous knowledges and cultures are marginalised, and the effects of …

The study aimed to answer the research question,“How are social work academics teaching
and preparing social work students for professional practice?” A constructivist grounded …

The principles of social justice underpin the various professional standards that guide social
work practice in Australia and internationally. Although the work of practising social workers …

Social work was born white. As a child of Western Modernity, the profession emerged from
social conditions and cultural frameworks of that place and time and has been applied in the …

This chapter examines critical theory as a way of explaining, contesting and acting upon
social injustice. Critical theories, of which there are many, have been a significant source of …

This chapter outlines some key features of Marxism as it relates to social work and offers
examples of Marxist social work within the varying contexts of capitalist states, popular …

This chapter addresses social work practice approaches (or theories and models) that focus
on facilitating change in the person, rather than change in social environment, for example …

Critical reflection is a much-championed academic practice across higher education that is
often presented as a university-wide graduate capability (Bosanquet 2011). It is also widely …