Re-Search Methods in Social Work: Book Launch on October 23, 2024

We're thrilled to announce the upcoming virtual book launch of Re-Search Methods in Social Work, authored by Kimberly A. Calderwood, Marina Morgenshtern, and Kathy E. Absolon (Minogiizhigokwe). The virtual book launch will take place on October 23, 2024 at 11:00 am EST. Register here.

In this virtual book launch, the authors will demonstrate how Re-search Methods in Social Work: Linking Ways of Knowing to Knowledge Creation is unique, innovative, and fills a niche in the context of social work education specifically across Turtle Island/Kanata/Canada. Topics to be discussed include the meaning and importance of the hyphen in the term "re-search," framing the book from a critical theory, de-colonizing, and transformative lens as well as within this framework, how the book models the concept of ethical space as introduced to re-search methods by Ermine (1995): "a space that brings together multiple ways of knowing from a place of respect, responsibility, inclusion, and relationality—no one worldview dominates or overshadows the others." Participants will also learn about the instructor resources that are available to support instructors using the textbook in their classrooms.

Participants will be provided with a limited time discount code for their purchases on the Canadian Scholars website. Two lucky participants will also be randomly selected to win a copy of Re-Search Methods in Social Work.

About Re-Search Methods in Social Work

Written from a critical theory, de-colonizing, and transformative lens, Re-Search Methods in Social Work: Linking Ways of Knowing to Knowledge Creation brings together in one space an introduction to four worldviews that inform what we call knowledge gathering, knowledge construction, knowledge co-creation, or re-search (depending on the worldview). This text presents a broad range of methods that are commonly used to inform social work practice across Turtle Island/Kanata/Canada, including the steps from inception to knowledge mobilization that are typically followed to acquire knowledge across Indigenous, (post)positivist, interpretivist, and transformative worldviews.

This engaging text features reader-friendly language; integrated authorship that spans the four worldviews; discussions of various challenges, strengths, and limitations in bringing together multiple ways of knowing and associated methods; chapter learning outcomes; and discussion questions. With a focus on anti-oppressive practice, social justice, social action, collaboration, and inclusion, Re-Search Methods in Social Work is essential for college and university social work courses, and for social work practitioner-researchers across Turtle Island/Kanata/Canada who are interested in opening their mind to a more wholistic and respectful way of engaging in dialogue about and advancing knowledge that leads to social change.