Using Social Research for Social Justice An Introduction for Social Work and Human Services | Health & Social Care

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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 a…