Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
As a region, the Pacific is developing rapidly. This textbook, the first of its kind, decolonizes the dominant western rhetoric that is evident in Pacific social work and rejuvenates current practice models to enhance evolving Pacific perspectives by
- Incorporating Pacific epistemologies and ontologies in social and community work practice, social policy and research
- Profiling contemporary Pacific needs - including health, education, social and welfare
- Utilising effective research methodologies that promote collaborative participation and inclusive outcomes
- Fostering practice perspectives and strategies that support indigenous knowledges
- Applying a review of Pacific models in social and community work
- Understanding the prevalence and role of social work and community work education and training in the Pacific region, including understanding the unique challenges the wider Pacific diaspora experiences in places like New Zealand, Australia and beyond
It demonstrates the role of social work within societies where social and cultural differences are evident, and practitioners, community groups, researchers, educators, and governments are encouraged to consider the integration between local indigenous and international knowledge and practice.
By providing rigorously research chapters, questions, case-studies and exercises, this text will be a key learning resource for social work and human and community services students, practitioners, social services managers and policy makers in Australia, New Zealand and various Island states across the Pacific including Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea.
Synopsis
As a region, the Pacific is changing rapidly. This edited collection, the first of its kind, centres Pacific-Indigenous ways of knowing, doing and being in Pacific social work. In so doing, the authors decolonise the dominant western rhetoric that is evident in contemporary social work practice in the region and rejuvenate practice models with evolving Pacific perspectives. Pacific Social Work
- Incorporates Pacific epistemologies and ontologies in social and community work practice, social policy and research
- Profiles contemporary Pacific needs - including health, education, environmental, justice and welfare
- Demonstrates the application of Pacific-Indigenous knowledges in practice in diverse Pacific contexts
- Examines Pacific-Indigenous research approaches to promote inform practice and positive outcomes
- Reviews Pacific models of social and community work and their application
- Fosters Pacific perspectives for social work and community work education and training in the Pacific region.
Pacific Social Work demonstrates the role of social work within societies where social and cultural differences are evident, and practitioners, community groups, researchers, educators, and governments are encouraged to consider the integration between local indigenous and international knowledge and practice. Providing rigorously researched case studies, questions and exercises, this book will be a key learning resource for social work and human and community services students, practitioners, social services managers and policy makers in Australia, New Zealand and various Pacific Island states across the Pacific including Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea.