Browsing Social Practice Journal Articles by Date Published
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Strategies to establish Social Policy Units (SPUs) within community-based organisations
(Unitec ePress, 2020-02-24)Community organisations hold huge knowledge about the needs as well as the dynamics of different communities. However, they often struggle to provide input and contribute this knowledge into the policy decision making ... -
Change and development in Glen Eden 2017: report to Waitakere Ranges Local Board
(Unitec ePress, 2020-02-24)This paper has been expanded from the report previously published by ePress on 13.11.2017 [https://hdl.handle.net/10652/3981] This is a report on change and development issues facing Glen Eden. The Waitakere Ranges Local ... -
Decolonising social work education in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Australian and New Zealand Social Work and Welfare Education and Research (ANZSWWER), 2019-07)The social work education sector has a vital role to play in advancing the rights and interests of Indigenous peoples. Global and national standards reinforce this requirement and regulatory frameworks identify decolonising ... -
A Treaty based framework for mainstream social work education in Aotearoa New Zealand : educators talk about their practice
(Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers, 2019)INTRODUCTION: Globally, indigenous social work educators have pursued decolonisation and the development of decolonising practices as part of the indigenous peoples’ rights movement and based on social work principles ... -
Celebrating diversity! Umm? And why the question – "Kei hea te putea?" Is more important than ever. Posted on April 6, 2018 by RSW Collective
(Re-imaging Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2018-04-06)Fraser and Honneth (2003) suggest that one useful way to slice up politics is to distinguish between the politics of recognition and the politics of redistribution. You could also talk about identity politics (Gergen, 1995) ... -
Spinning rubbish into gold
(The University of Glasgow (Glasgow, Scotland), 2018)Ki te kahore he whakakitenga ka ngaro te iwi "Without foresight or vision the people will be lost" In this case study I introduce a social enterprise in waste and recycling using community development methodology. The ... -
African mothers’ experiences of raising ‘Afro-Kiwi kids’ in Aotearoa / New Zealand
(African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP), 2017-12)This article presents findings from qualitative research data gathered from a group of ten refugee-background and immigrant African mothers living in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand. The research study—From Mama Africa to ... -
Student selection process effectiveness : correlations between task performance and undergraduate success
(Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work (ANZSW), 2017)INTRODUCTION: This article is a case study of student selection process effectiveness in an undergraduate social work degree at Unitec in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Addressing an internationally under-researched ... -
Housing issues in Auckland
(Auckland District Council of Social Service Inc. (ADCOSS), 2016-02)Recently, I went to hear Alan Johnson (Salvation Army Policy Analyst) speak on the topic of housing, and how Auckland itself got into this mess. Here are some of my thoughts on that speech. Alan Johnson started by asking ... -
New public management and information communication technology : organisational influences on frontline child protection practice
(Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers, 2016)In this paper the authors examine the new public management (NPM) philosophy influencing the organisational environment in which child protection social workers are located. NPM prioritises outputs through policies, such ... -
Happiness is not only your right, it’s your duty : the new age spiritism of Salto Quântico
(University of California Press, 2016)Salto Quântico is a rapidly growing religious movement based in Aracaju, Brazil. Syncretising New Age, Spiritist and Christian precepts, the group exposes followers to spiritual discourse and ideology imparted by enlightened ... -
Advancing social work professionalism : standards for management and leadership in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Aotearoa New Zealand Social Workers, 2015-12)In 2004, management was recognised by the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) as one of 13 ‘core purposes’ of the global profession. Taking that recognition as a starting point, this article advances the ... -
Embedding learning for future and imagined communities in portfolio assessment
(Unitec ePress, 2015-09-15)In tertiary contexts where adults study writing for future academic purposes, teaching and learning via portfolio provides them with multiple opportunities to create and recreate texts characteristic of their future and ... -
Experiencing women’s advocacy : connections with and departures from a feminist socio-political movement to end violence against women
(Unitec ePress, 2015-08-13)This article examines how contemporary women’s advocates working in New Zealand with women experiencing intimate partner violence regard their work and how these experiences both connect with and depart from a feminist ... -
Toward equal participation : an auto-ethnography of facilitating consultations in the refugee sector
(Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW), 2015)This article uses an auto-ethnographic approach to exploring how one positions oneself as a facilitator in a layered and power-laden context in the refugee sector in New Zealand to ensure just and collaborative negotiations. ... -
Lay members of New Zealand research ethics committees : who and what do they represent?
(Sage Publications, 2015)Since the 1988 Cartwright Inquiry, lay members of ethics committees have been tasked with ensuring that ordinary New Zealanders are not forgotten in ethical deliberations. Unlike Institutional Review Boards (IRBs, or ethics ... -
The meanings of gender and the home space for recipients of palliative care, and some implications for social workers in the field
(The International Association of Schools of Social Work, 2014-09)This article explores the occupation of gendered spaces on the part of four men and four women journeying through palliative care. Drawing on ethnographic and interview data focussing on participants’ experiences with ... -
People with a borderline personality disorder diagnosis describe discriminatory experiences
(Taylor & Francis Group together with the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2014-03-20)The psychiatric diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) attracts considerable stigma. People given this diagnosis may be characterised as manipulative, difficult, attention-seeking or untreatable. This paper ... -
End-of-life care needs of people dying from stroke in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore : a space for palliative care
(2014)AIMS: 1. Investigate the illness pathway of people dying of stroke in Singapore, New Zealand and Australia; and 2. Undertake a comparison of the needs of people dying of stroke between these countries. METHODS: A ... -
The corner : clients that inspire us
(2014)Following a comment of Peggy Sax that some clients “bring out the best in us,” I proposed in 2011 that, furthermore, some clients do more than that, they in fact inspire us. I am sure I am not the only one to think so ...
