Open AccessSocial Work Education For Aboriginal Communities
Author(s) -
Leslie Brown
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
canadian journal of higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2293-6602
pISSN - 0316-1218
DOI - 10.47678/cjhe.v22i3.183142
Subject(s) - mainstream , curriculum , sociology , work (physics) , pedagogy , assimilation (phonology) , higher education , accommodation , engineering ethics , social work , teaching philosophy , public relations , political science , psychology , law , engineering , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , neuroscience
This paper examines aboriginal social work education in Canada and suggests that current education practice may be facilitating the assimilation of aboriginal students into a mainstream culture and profession. Developments in aboriginal social work programs and curriculum are reviewed and a philosophy of recognition and accommodation of aboriginal perspectives as a basis for future developments is posed as an alternative to assimilation. Further, a strategy for teaching, termed interface teaching, is suggested as a way in which non-aboriginal educators can take individual responsibility for wrestling with some of the issues that arise in the professional education of aboriginal students.