Where to from here? Integration of indigenous knowledges and practice in contemporary settings

Authors

Jioji Ravulo, University of WollongongFollow
Wheturangi Walsh-Tapiata, Massey UniversityFollow

RIS ID

135269

Publication Details

Ravulo, J. & Walsh-Tapiata, W. (2019). Where to from here? Integration of indigenous knowledges and practice in contemporary settings. In J. Ravulo, T. Mafile'o & D. Bruce. Yeates (Eds.), Pacific Social Work : Navigating Practice, Policy and Research (pp. 223-231). London: Routledge.

Abstract

• The inclusion of indigenous perspectives as part of the global definition in social work should be meaningfully utilised across social work education, practice, policy and research.
• Indigenous world views have been devalued at the cost of privileging dominant western discourses; however, this should be challenged and revalued.
• The need to promote the decoloniality of social work as everyone's responsibility is part of creating a sustainable change and difference.
• Social workers deconstruct and reconstruct the way in which they implement and undertake their profession; also evident in the underlying notions of Pacific social work.