- Title
- Aboriginal social work academics: failure to thrive due to having to fight to survive?
- Creator
- Bennett, Bindi
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/198211
- Identifier
- vital:18998
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2021.1989001
- Identifier
- ISSN:0312-407X1447-0748
- Abstract
- The Behrendt report (2012) highlighted the significant lack of representation of Aboriginal people in higher education. It called for a collaborative approach by governments, universities, and professional bodies to drive systemic changes. In the last decade, this has resulted in an increase of Aboriginal students, staff, and researchers. This article presents a qualitative research study in which Aboriginal social work academic participants described their experiences of curriculum changes, workload, and research in the academy. Implications for universities, and social work programs, in particular, show where more is needed in the form of antiracist action plans and follow-through with these to address failure to thrive due to having to fight to survive in the academy. IMPLICATIONS Aboriginal social work academics are continuing to find academia to be socially and politically unsafe and unfairly competitive. Universities are experienced by Aboriginal social work academics as being often unsupportive and untrustworthy workplaces. Non-Aboriginal social work academics need to increase their commitment to, and actions regarding, antiracist practice with their Aboriginal colleagues.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Relation
- Australian social work Vol. 75, no. 3 (2022), p. 344-357
- Rights
- Culturally sensitive
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright Taylor & Francis
- Subject
- Aboriginal Social Work Academics; Academic staff; Antiracist Action; Collaborative approach; Colleges & universities; Curricula; Education, Higher; Failure to thrive; Higher education; Indigenous peoples; Native peoples; Prevention; Public relations; Qualitative research; Racism; Representation (politics); Social programs; Social service; Social work; Sociology; Systemic Racism; Unsafe; Workplaces; 4407 Policy and adminstration; 4409 Social work
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