Creating a culturally safe space when teaching aboriginal content in social work: A scoping review
- Authors: Fernando, Terrina , Bennett, Bindi
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian social work Vol. 72, no. 1 (2019), p. 47-61
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- Description: Teaching Aboriginal content in social work education presents risks of retraumatisation for students. There are international calls for a trauma-informed teaching model that creates cultural safety in the classroom. This study aimed to develop a trauma-informed model for social work education by reviewing the literature on cultural safety for Aboriginal peoples. This model incorporates key aspects of ensuring Aboriginal cultural safety: de-colonise social work education collaborative partnerships build relationships critical reflection develop cultural courage and yarning and story-telling. It provides a valuable framework for creating a more equitable teaching and learning environment that also ensures the essential academic content is covered. IMPLICATIONS Trauma underlies the historical, contemporary and cultural narratives of Aboriginal peoples. Students engaging in Aboriginal content that is traumatic can mean connecting with trauma that has occurred in their own lives. Trauma-informed teaching and learning will ensure that educators create culturally safe spaces that enable students to engage well with content. The adoption of the framework proposed in this paper may lead to the creation of a culturally safe space for teaching and learning in social work education.
Wayanha: A decolonised social work
- Authors: Green, Sue , Bennett, Bindi
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian social work Vol. 71, no. 3 (2018), p. 261-264
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- Description: After much careful consideration of what we would like to say to social workers and the social work profession, we wanted to start with the acknowledgement that social work, for the most part, has owned its own actions of the past and is taking steps to make amends for past actions and to learn and grow from past mistakes. However, there is still something missing. As a profession, whether that is in the field, within education and training, or as the professional body, we do not seem to be able to quite get there. So, what is it that we are missing?
The convincing ground aboriginal massacre at Portland Bay, Victoria: fact or fiction?
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Aboriginal History Vol. 35, no. (2011), p. 79-109
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- Description: In 2005 the so-called 'Aboriginal History wars' moved from Tasmania to a new convincing ground in Victoria. Michael Connor contested the historiography behind an alleged Aboriginal massacre at a site known as the 'Convincing Ground', at Allestree, on the coast some ten kilometres north of Portland. The site came to public attention in January 2005 when Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Officers halted bulldozing and development work that had begun as part of a proposed coastal residential development. It subsequently became the subject of a Federal Court Native Title case and a Victorian Civil Administrative Tribunal hearing. The dispute with the residential developer was settled in February 2007 when it was agreed that an area of land that encompasses the Convincing Ground would be set aside as a reservation.
- Description: 2003008944
Dhudhuroa and Yaithmathang languages and social groups in north-east Victoria - a reconstruction
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Aboriginal History Vol. 33, no. (2010), p. 201-229
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- Description: The determination of Aboriginal languages in north-east Victoria has been acknowledged by a number of authors as one of the most problematical areas in the reconstruction of Victorian Aboriginal languages and dialects at the time of first contact.[1] Of particular interest is the Omeo district and resolution of the labels ‘Jaithmathang’ and ‘Gundungerre’. This article will provide a systematic analysis of primary sources relative to language, dialect and social group names. It also provides an overview of lexicostatistical analyses of vocabulary from the study area and undertakes a preliminary analysis of vocabulary from the Omeo district to determine its similarity with neighbouring languages. Finally it analyses previous research into constituent social groups.
Holding heart : Aboriginal breathing space in research epistemology
- Authors: Heckenberg, Robyn
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Vol. 5, no. 9 (2010 2010 ), p. 107-118
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- Description: This paper discusses research within the framework of an Aboriginal way of being and an Aboriginal cultural perception or way of seeing. This particular ontological approach to research arises from a reality that is metaphysical in nature, an Aboriginal phenomenology that possibly challenges western academic models of research methods and guidelines. Respect is at the heart of this research practice and ancestral knowledge and Indigenous law all form part of the way research needs to be enacted. As well as the centrality of ordinary (mundane) knowing, knowledge is deeply spiritual, guiding life-ways and research rationale. Life and nature are sacred, kinship claims link to specific kinds of awareness related to Country and Traditional people belonging to Country. Behaving carefully and appropriately (ethically) are part of the cultural practice of this kind of research and ensure health and well-being for people and Country.
'You have all this place, no good have children……' Derrimut : Traitor, saviour, or a man of his people?
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society Vol. 91, no. pt.2 (2005), p. 107-132
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- Description: C1
- Description: 2003001043
Learning through indigenous business : The role of vocational education and training in indigenous enterprise and community development
- Authors: Flamsteed, Kate , Golding, Barry
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Book
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- Description: A1
- Description: 2003001326
'That's My Country, Belonging to Me' : Aboriginal land tenure and dispossession in nineteenth century Western Victoria
- Authors: Clark, Ian
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Book
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- Description: A1
- Description: 2003000521