1st Edition
A Theory for Indigenous Australian Health and Human Service Work Connecting Indigenous knowledge and practice
By Lorraine Muller
Copyright 2014
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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Winner of the 2015 Educational Publishing Awards Australia - Scholarly Resource Most people of European background are not aware that they see the world through the lens of the Western tradition, but for Indigenous people, it can seem like a foreign language. Indigenous ways of thinking and working are grounded in many thousands of years of oral tradition, and continue among Australian... Read more
Foreword
Acknowledgements
1 The power of story
2 Story of colonisation
3 Decolonisation
4 Aboriginal knowledge
5 Grounding the research
6 Responsibility of knowledge
7 Racism
8 Spirituality
9 Indigenous Australian Social-Health Theory
10 Healing and Forgiveness
11 Holding knowledge
References
Index
Acknowledgements
1 The power of story
2 Story of colonisation
3 Decolonisation
4 Aboriginal knowledge
5 Grounding the research
6 Responsibility of knowledge
7 Racism
8 Spirituality
9 Indigenous Australian Social-Health Theory
10 Healing and Forgiveness
11 Holding knowledge
References
Index
Biography
LORRAINE MULLER is a Murri woman with many years experience in community work. She holds a PhD in Social Work, and is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the School of Medicine and Dentistry at James Cook University, where she is undertaking her second PhD.
