Abstracts
Abstract
Challenging Whiteness and its dominance in social work education and practice is an act of resistance with violent repercussions for Indigenous and racialized social work educators who do this work. In this paper, two authors—one Indigenous and one racialized settler—discuss building bridges between mainstream social work and Indigenous-centred social work by sharing their reflexive lived experiences (personal and professional) of decentring Whiteness, engaging in decolonization, and deploying wholistic ways of teaching and being at a faculty of social work located on Turtle Island. The authors end by sharing some possible strategies and discussion points which can work to bridge the gap and challenge Whiteness in social work.
Keywords:
- wholistic,
- decolonization,
- social work,
- reflexivity,
- Whiteness
Résumé
Remettre en question la blancheur et sa domination dans la formation et la pratique du travail social est un acte de résistance, ayant souvent des répercussions violentes sur les éducateurs en travail social autochtones et racialisés qui font ce travail. Dans cet article, deux auteures—une Autochtone et une colonisatrice racisée—discutent de la construction de ponts entre le travail social traditionnel et le travail social autochtone, en partageant leurs réflexions sur leurs expériences vécues (personnelles et professionnelles) visant à : décentrer la blancheur, s’engager dans la décolonisation et déployer des méthodes wholistiques d’enseignement et d’existence dans une faculté de travail social située sur l’île de la Tortue. Les auteures terminent en partageant quelques stratégies et points de réflexion possibles pouvant contribuer à combler le fossé et à remettre en question la blancheur dans le travail social.
Mots-clés :
- wholistiques,
- décolonisation,
- travail social,
- réflexivité,
- blancheur
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