Cultural Responsiveness in Action: Co-Constructing Social Work Curriculum Resources with Aboriginal Communities

Bindi Bennett; Helen Redfern; Joanna Zubrzycki

doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcx053

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Cultural Responsiveness in Action: Co-Constructing Social Work Curriculum Resources with Aboriginal Communities

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Cultural Responsiveness in Action: Co-Constructing Social Work Curriculum Resources with Aboriginal Communities

Bindi Bennett, Helen Redfern and Joanna Zubrzycki

British Journal of Social Work, Vol.48(3), pp.808-825

2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcx053

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Social Work

Psychology

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

social work education

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing have recently become core social work curriculum in Australian social work degrees and are regarded as central to decolonising Australian social work education and producing culturally responsive social work practitioners. Effectively teaching these knowledges, values and skills requires multiple strategies including the development of new curriculum resources which demonstrate the integration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing in practice. This article presents the theory and practice of co-constructing two filmed case studies with Aboriginal stakeholders which address a range of student learning needs. These powerful case studies are informed by Aboriginal knowledges and demonstrate the skills and values that the community state they want and need from social workers. Engaging in a community-led process provides social work educators with opportunities to build relationships with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, thus modelling cultural responsiveness in action.

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Title: Cultural Responsiveness in Action: Co-Constructing Social Work Curriculum Resources with Aboriginal Communities
Authors: Bindi Bennett (Author) - Australian Catholic University
Helen Redfern (Author) - Australian Catholic University
Joanna Zubrzycki (Corresponding Author) - Australian Catholic University
Publication details: British Journal of Social Work, Vol.48(3), pp.808-825
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date published: 2018
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcx053
ISSN: 0045-3102
Copyright note: Copyright © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits noncommercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
Organisation Unit: Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450696802621
Output Type: Journal article

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