Offering concrete direction for some and validation for others, this groundbreaking book encourages engagement in much-needed discourse on Indigenous social work education. Centred on the strengths, weaknesses, and healing powers of Indigenous social work education programs, the twelve original articles in this collection cover the efforts made over the past twenty-five years to develop and deliver social work education that meets the needs of Indigenous students in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Informative and engaging, Walking in the Good Way / Ioterihwakwaríhshion Tsi Íhse is a vital resource for the social work classroom.
Introduction: Wa’tkwanonhwera: ton – William S. Rowe Chapter 1: Walking on Thin Ice: The Evolution of the McGill Certificate Program in Northern Social Work Practice – Liesel Urtnowski
Chapter 2: Intervention Difficulties between Inuit Clients and Non-Inuit Workers – Lolly Annahatak
Chapter 3: From Igloo to Internet: Shifting Terrains of Power and Knowledge in Inuit Social Work Education – Laura Mastronardi
Chapter 4: Local and Global Approaches to Aboriginal Education: A Description of the McGill Certificate Program in Aboriginal Social Work Practice – Gail Stacey Moore
Chapter 5: Building Bridges: The Development of an Aboriginal Program from the Viewpoints of the Native and Non-Native Teachers – Ingrid Thompson Cooper, Gail Stacey Moore, Alisha Schotsman-Apale, and Florence Dobson
Chapter 6: Strengths and Weaknesses of a Specialized Program: Learning from Students in Aboriginal Social Work Education in Canada – Amanda Grenier
Chapter 7: Aboriginal BSW Education in Rural and Remote Communities: The University of Calgary’s Learning Circle Model – Michael Kim Zapf
Chapter 8: Aboriginal Social Work Education in Australia – Arthur William Anscombe
Chapter 9: Some Observations on Social Work Education and Indigeneity in New Zealand – Jim Anglem
Chapter 10: Education as Healing: A Central Part of Aboriginal Social Work Professional Training – Ingrid Thompson Cooper, Gail Stacey Moore, and Florence Dobson
Chapter 11: Aboriginal Healing Practices in Mainstream Social Work Education Programs … Sagacity or Sacrilege – Nicki Garwood and Jean Stevenson
Chapter 12: Walk a Mile in Social Work Shoes: The One on the Right Is a Moccasin and the Left Is a Sensible Flat: Aboriginal Cross-cultural Social Work Education – Anne Acco and Nicki Garwood
References Index
Biography
McGill University social work professor Ingrid Thompson Cooper has written and taught widely in the areas of child sexual abuse, criminology, and forensic psychiatry. Since 1995 she has coordinated the McGill Certificate Program in Aboriginal Social Work Practice and has served as administrative director of the Aboriginal Healing Clinic.
Gail Stacey Moore is a Mohawk woman with extensive experience in community organizing, Aboriginal social work, and political activism. She is the joint coordinator and a co-instructor in the Certificate Program in Aboriginal Social Work Practice at McGill University. She has also served as the clinical director of the Aboriginal Healing Clinic.
“Walking in the Good Way is an excellent resource for social work educators around the world who wish to work with Aboriginal communities in offering anti-oppressive, Aboriginal-centred education. The real voices of students, instructors (Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal), and administrators speak to the need to step outside of traditional methods and to challenge the power inherent in traditional university education.”
Grant Larson, Dean, School of Social Work and Human Service, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia
