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Thursday, March 12 • 10:15 - 11:15
Learning from Aboriginal Social Workers: Decolonizing and Making Accessible Professional Social Work Education

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If social work programs want to attract and retain Aboriginal students, admissions, campuses, curricula, and course content need to reflect those goals. This original research will discuss the supports and barriers fifteen Aboriginal social workers, who as youth had been in child welfare and/or criminal justice systems, encountered while pursuing their career path including their professional education. Drawing from diverse critical theories and using Institutional Ethnography (IE) and Hermeneutic Phenomenology, implications for decolonizing social work education will be highlighted.
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Julianna West

Assistant Professor, Thompson Rivers University
Dr. Juliana West completed her PhD in 2014 from the University of Manitoba with her dissertation entitled The Role of Social Work in Contemporary Colonial and Structurally Violent Processes: Speaking to Aboriginal Social Workers who had Child Welfare and/or Criminal Justice Involvement... Read More →

Thursday March 12, 2015 10:15 - 11:15 PDT
TRUSU Lecture Hall
  Session G

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