{"title":"TOWARDS A RECOGNITION OF THE PLURALITY OF KNOWLEDGE IN SOCIAL WORK","authors":"Lisa Ellington","doi":"10.7202/1068547ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1068547ar","url":null,"abstract":"Social work as a profession has undergone significant change in recent decades, modulated by the various social, political, and organizational transformations of the society in which it evolves. Today, there is increasingly diversified research encompassing a number of coexisting visions of social work. These multiple visions come hand in hand with values, principles, as well as ideologies, some of which are dominant, and others that are marginal. Indigenous Peoples are among the most marginalized groups in society and so are Indigenous worldviews within the profession. Currently, there seems to be a willingness to recognize the plurality of knowledge in the area of social work. In line with this objective, the purpose of this article is to present the Indigenous research paradigm. This is a theoretical contemplation centered around the historical context that led to the paradigm’s creation, a description of what it consists of, as well as a presentation of a few examples of its use by social work researchers. Finally, the paper brings up certain persistent issues related to the recognition of the Indigenous paradigm within the profession.","PeriodicalId":84390,"journal":{"name":"Canadian social work review = Revue canadienne de service social","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71175313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LE NÉOLIBÉRALISME ET LA RÉGLEMENTATION DU TRAVAIL SOCIAL","authors":"Barbara A. Heron","doi":"10.7202/1068546ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1068546ar","url":null,"abstract":"L’engagement des theoriciens et des chercheurs en travail social, a travers leur pratique, dans une « desobeissance epistemique » face a « l’epistemicide » des savoirs des Autres est une question essentielle qui se pose dans le contexte neoliberal actuel. Toutefois, les possibilites d’opposer une telle resistance sont de plus en plus limitees par les exigences d’obtention de permis pour les professionnels du travail social. Le present article examine les effets de la reglementation professionnelle du domaine du travail social au moyen de l’etablissement de normes de competence pour l’octroi de permis qui consistent a consolider les modes de connaissance occidentaux tout en transformant la profession, de concert avec le neoliberalisme, de maniere a la soustraire a la desobeissance epistemique. Les normes de competence elaborees par le Conseil canadien des organismes de reglementation en travail social serviront de point de depart d’une analyse des effets croises du neoliberalisme sur la pratique du travail social et de la place essentielle que tient la reglementation de la profession dans cet echeveau d’effets. Les repercussions pour l’enseignement du travail social et l’imperatif d’une resistance epistemique seront abordes en conclusion.","PeriodicalId":84390,"journal":{"name":"Canadian social work review = Revue canadienne de service social","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71175462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Albert, Lise Savoie, Isabel Lanteigne, E. Savoie, E. Hinse
{"title":"QUAND L’ÉTAT APPAUVRIT LES FEMMES","authors":"H. Albert, Lise Savoie, Isabel Lanteigne, E. Savoie, E. Hinse","doi":"10.7202/1064658ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1064658ar","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article presente des resultats d’une recherche qualitative portant sur la fragilite des conditions symboliques et materielles dans lesquelles le travail de soins a domicile se deploie au Nouveau-Brunswick. Dans cette province, l’Etat, dans le developpement de politiques sociales en matiere de sante et de services sociaux, souhaite que le secteur des soins a domicile devienne la pierre angulaire de son systeme de sante dans une volonte de maintenir des personnes âgees a demeurer a domicile le plus longtemps possible. Ce faisant le modele de livraison de service developpe repose sur une organisation qui implique l’embauche de travailleuses de soins a domicile devenant ainsi un secteur d’activites qui se caracterise par une surrepresentation feminine de la main-d’oeuvre. Au Nouveau-Brunswick, les femmes qui oeuvrent dans ce secteur sont soumises a des conditions de travail precaires qui les maintiennent dans la pauvrete. Les resultats revelent ainsi que la precarite de ces travailleuses est accentuee par les conditions materielles difficiles. En effet, le salaire, l’horaire de travail, les avantages sociaux, les depenses ou les frais afferents a leur travail sont au nombre de ces conditions qui les maintiennent dans des conditions precaires. Pourtant, ces femmes jouent un role essentiel dans notre societe, elles qui, par leur travail du care, assument des responsabilites professionnelles fondamentales au maintien du lien social. C’est donc tout un systeme qui est complice de l’appauvrissement de ces femmes, tout un systeme qui n’offre a ces dernieres, ni la reconnaissance materielle, ni la reconnaissance symbolique de leur contribution.","PeriodicalId":84390,"journal":{"name":"Canadian social work review = Revue canadienne de service social","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71164399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annick D. St-Amand, Marie-Christine Fortin, M. Saint-Jacques, Sylvie Drapeau, Marie-Hélène Gagné
{"title":"SERVICES DE SUPERVISION DES DROITS D’ACCÈS AU QUÉBEC","authors":"Annick D. St-Amand, Marie-Christine Fortin, M. Saint-Jacques, Sylvie Drapeau, Marie-Hélène Gagné","doi":"10.7202/1051103AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1051103AR","url":null,"abstract":"Les services de supervision des droits d’accès (SDA) permettent de maintenir le lien parent-enfant dans un contexte neutre et sécuritaire. Les familles qui se retrouvent dans ces services ont généralement un point en commun : elles ont besoin d’être épaulées, écoutées et protégées, notamment par des intervenants formés qui assurent le bon déroulement des contacts supervisés. Peu d’écrits scientifiques ont documenté les pratiques en vigueur dans les services de SDA et qui s’actualisent auprès des familles en provenance de la Cour supérieure ou détenant une entente volontaire ou survenue au terme d’une médiation. Ainsi, à partir de données collectées par le biais d’un questionnaire électronique, cette étude fait état du point de vue de 50 répondants supervisant ou administrant un service de SDA dans lequel s’effectuent des échanges de garde et des visites supervisées. Les répondants se sont exprimés sur la nature du travail effectué dans les ressources de SDA, les forces et difficultés du service, les pistes d’amélioration ainsi que leur perception du système judiciaire. Les résultats ont permis de constater que les répondants sont à l’aise dans leur rôle, qu’ils identifient plusieurs points forts des services, mais que le financement des ressources peut parfois leur poser certaines embûches.","PeriodicalId":84390,"journal":{"name":"Canadian social work review = Revue canadienne de service social","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41409590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THESE ARE INDIGENOUS LANDS","authors":"C. Hiller, Elizabeth Carlson","doi":"10.7202/1051102AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1051102AR","url":null,"abstract":"The recent upsurge of interest regarding environmental social work is unfolding against a backdrop of centuries of continuous struggle on the part of Indigenous peoples to protect their lands and waters. In this article, we consider the ways in which environmental social work frameworks engage the realities and resistances of Indigenous peoples in the context of settler colonialism. We contend that to ethically engage with environmentalism, social workers living and working on Indigenous territories must understand and resist settler colonialism, our implication in upholding its structure and practices, and its contribution to ecological destruction. Drawing upon the work of Indigenous scholars, we briefly describe Indigenous peoples’ conception of their relationships to land and sovereignty and how settler colonialism as a structure is organized with the explicit aim of eliminating these relationships. We then review prominent texts addressing several competing environmental social work frameworks, considering how each takes up (or not) histories of colonialism and Indigenous dispossession and addresses Indigenous identities, relations to land, and assertions of sovereignty. We conclude by offering principles and practices that might foreground the disruption of settler colonialism and respect for Indigenous sovereignty as necessary frameworks for Canadian environmental social work.","PeriodicalId":84390,"journal":{"name":"Canadian social work review = Revue canadienne de service social","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45809352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resisting violence against women in Central America: the experience of a feminist collective.","authors":"N J Profitt","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84390,"journal":{"name":"Canadian social work review = Revue canadienne de service social","volume":"11 1","pages":"103-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22030960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}