Introduction: Anti-Oppressive Practice: Emerging Perspectives and Future Challenges
Wes Shera
SECTION 1: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 1: Theorizing Social Exclusion: Determinants, Mechanisms, Dimensions, Forms, and Acts of Resistance
Luann Good Gingrich
Chapter 2: Margins as Centres: A Theory of Social Inclusion in Anti-Oppressive Social Work
Rick Sin and Miu Chun Yan
Chapter 3: Race, Class, and Gender in the Everyday Talk of Social Workers: The Ways We Limit the Possibilities for Radical Practice
Donna Baines
Chapter 4: Structural Social Work as Seen from an Aboriginal Perspective
Cyndy Baskin
Chapter 5: Cultural Diversity in Social Work Practice: Where Are We Now and What Are the Challenges in Addressing Issues of Justice and Oppression?
Connie H. Nelson and Dennis H. McPherson
SECTION 2: FIELDS OF PRACTICE
Chapter 6: Child Welfare: AOP’s Nemesis?
Gary C. Dumbrill
Chapter 7: Services for Street Youth: Do They Reproduce, Contribute to, and Perpetuate Oppression?
Charis Romilly
Chapter 8: “Meaningful” Participation and Governance: Lessons from Visible Minority Parents Using Child Care
Evelyn Ferguson
Chapter 9: Inclusion by Design: The Challenge for Social Work in Workplace Accommodation for People with Disabilities
Donald R. Leslie, Kaye Leslie, and Michelle Murphy
Chapter 10: Communities That Foster Diverse Modes of Existence Versus Societies Based on Control: A PHenomenological Approach to Improve the Deinstitutionalization Process
Alain Beaulieu
Chapter 11: Anti-Oppressive Practice with Older Adults: A Feminist Post-structural Perspective
Deborah O’Connor
SECTION 3: CRITICAL ISSUES
Chapter 12: Social Work Identity and Purpose: Real or Imagined?
Ken Barber
Chapter 13: Narrative Therapy: Reifying or Challenging Dominant Discourse
Catrina Brown
Chapter 14: Reconceptualizing Empathy for Anti-Oppressive, Culturally Competent Practice
Janet L. Clark
Chapter 15: Seeking Cultural Competence: What Is It, How Do You Develop It, and How Do You Know When You’ve Got It?
Charmaine C. Williams
Chapter 16: Listening to the Voices of Service Participants in Child Protective Services, Children’s Mental Health, and Psychotherapy
Marshall Fine, Sally Palmer, and Nick Coady
Chapter 17: A Community Approach to Combating Racism
Roopchand Seebaran
Chapter 18: Community Practice in the Internet Age
Steven F. Hick
Chapter 19: The Right to Food: An Essential Element in a Successful War against Terrorism
William H. Simpson Whitaker
SECTION 4: SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION
Chapter 20: Controversies, Tensions, and Contradictions: Anti-Oppression and Social Justice in the Social Work Curriculum
Judy Hughes, Shirley Chau, Pamela James, and Steven Sherman
Chapter 21: Beyond the Role Play: Alternative Teaching Methods in an Anti-Oppression Classroom
Samantha Wehbi
Chapter 22: Understanding Multiple Oppressions and How They Impact the Person Requesting Assistance
Gilles Tremblay
Chapter 23: Principles and Practices of Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy as Represented by Dr. Terry Swice
Carolyn Campbell
Chapter 24: Are We Ready to Take a Stand? Education about Heterosexism – Fostering Anti-Oppressive Practice
Mike Woodford and Leslie Bella
Chapter 25: Critical Issues in Field Instruction: Empowerment Principles and Issues of Power and Control
Jeanne Bertrand Finch, Jean Bacon, Donna Klassen, and Betty-Jean Wrase
Chapter 26: Promoting Anti-Oppressive Social Work Education: The University of Calgary’s Access Learning Circle Model
Michael Kim Zapf, William Pelech, Betty Bastien, Ralph Bodoy, Jeannine Carriere, and Gail Zuk
Chapter 27: Managing Institutional Practices to Promote and Strengthen Diversity: One School’s Journey
Nancy MacDonald, Wanda Thomas-Bernard, Carolyn Campbell, Jeanne Fay, Judy MacDonald, and Brenda Richard
