Description
| Product ID: | 9781032153650 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Using Social Research for Social Justice |
| Subtitle: | An Introduction for Social Work and Human Services |
| Authors: | Author: Alankaar Sharma, Margot Rawsthorne, Mareese Terare, Emma Tseris, Amanda Howard |
| Page Count: | 246 |
| Subjects: | Social discrimination and social justice, Social discrimination & inequality, Social groups, communities and identities, Social welfare and social services, Social work, Higher education, tertiary education, Social groups, Social welfare & social services, Social work, Higher & further education, tertiary education |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book will inspire the next generation of social work practitioners to integrate research into their everyday social justice practice. This book will inspire the next generation of social work and human service practitioners to integrate research into their everyday social justice practice. Through highlighting the centrality of values to the task of research and the possibilities for enacting social justice through our research practice, it argues for respectful, meaningful, and just relationships with the people with whom we do research and build knowledge; acknowledges the ongoing impact of colonialism; respects diversity; and commits to working towards social change. With First Nations Worldviews – ways of knowing, ways of being, ways of doing – weaved throughout the text, this book seeks to both reclaim ancient knowledges and disrupt Western research traditions. Divided into three sections, this book provides
Bringing the authors’ passion for finding new ways of ‘doing’ research and contesting traditional research paradigms of objectivity and the scientific, it advocates for knowledge building that is participatory, emancipatory, and empowered. It will be required reading for all social work and human service students at both the undergraduate and master''s level as well as professionals looking to put research into practice. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-08-15 |
