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A group model of practice with girls of Asian ethnicityManhas, Sonia 05 1900 (has links)
This study examined how group work can provide a culturally-competent, gender and agesensitive
model of social work practice with girls of colour. I developed and implemented
a school-based girls' group program specifically designed to outreach to girls of colour
between thirteen and eighteen years of age. Results from the program demonstrated that
through purposeful efforts to develop collaborative, non-hierarchical relationships, adult
facilitators played a significant role in creating an environment in which girls could speak
about issues that were important to them, including those related to race and culture.
During the group sessions, girls learned about each other and themselves, identified
similarities in their experiences as immigrants to Canada, and created a sense of group
belonging. Similarity in non-dominant cultural status and gender among participants and
facilitators appeared to have contributed to the group's cohesiveness and countered
structural barriers to addressing race and culture. This study highlighted the value of a
group model of practice to provide girls of colour with their own space to freely explore
individual experiences and a vehicle for community organizing.
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A group model of practice with girls of Asian ethnicityManhas, Sonia 05 1900 (has links)
This study examined how group work can provide a culturally-competent, gender and agesensitive
model of social work practice with girls of colour. I developed and implemented
a school-based girls' group program specifically designed to outreach to girls of colour
between thirteen and eighteen years of age. Results from the program demonstrated that
through purposeful efforts to develop collaborative, non-hierarchical relationships, adult
facilitators played a significant role in creating an environment in which girls could speak
about issues that were important to them, including those related to race and culture.
During the group sessions, girls learned about each other and themselves, identified
similarities in their experiences as immigrants to Canada, and created a sense of group
belonging. Similarity in non-dominant cultural status and gender among participants and
facilitators appeared to have contributed to the group's cohesiveness and countered
structural barriers to addressing race and culture. This study highlighted the value of a
group model of practice to provide girls of colour with their own space to freely explore
individual experiences and a vehicle for community organizing. / Arts, Faculty of / Social Work, School of / Graduate
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Marginalization of social work practise with ethno-racial minorities in mainstream human service organizations in a Canadian setting : a critical exploratory study of systemic issuesIp, Eugene Yiu-Chung 07 1900 (has links)
The thesis is a qualitative study from critical theory perspectives to enhance
understanding of how systemically mainstream organizations marginalize social work
practice with ethno-racial minorities. It also explores strategic implications for systemic
change based on field research findings. Ten social workers from Edmonton – the
provincial capital city of Alberta, Canada - participated in investigative dialogues for the
thesis field research. These research participants’ workplace stories lend themselves to
explore three questions: what does marginalization of practice with ethno-racial
minorities look like in mainstream organizational settings; what is there to understand
about it as a systemic issue and what the research findings imply for change strategies.
A critical analysis of dialogic data thematically identifies everyday work issues
that describe how practice with ethno-racial minorities is kept at the operational and
service-delivery fringe of individual workplaces. These thematic findings point to
broader issues of the mainstream human service organization sector. These broader
issues further highlight how the practice marginalization of concern in this thesis is a
systemically constructed issue. These broader issues are mainstream benevolence, social
work as an employment regime, multicultural service delivery as a thrill and clientization
of ethno-racial minorities.
In consideration of these sector-wide issues, implied change strategies reveal
three thematic directions for systemic transformational change: (i) continued dialoguing
involving concerned social workers and ethno-racial minority community leaders, (ii)
community social work to build and foster coalitionary activist work and organizations,
and (iii) participatory research involving a community sharing concern of the practice
marginalization issue so as to build a strong knowledge-base to support and empower broad-base activist endeavour to effect change about mainstream human service
organizations. / Social Work / D. Phil. (Social Work)
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Marginalization of social work practise with ethno-racial minorities in mainstream human service organizations in a Canadian setting : a critical exploratory study of systemic issuesIp, Eugene Yiu-Chung 07 1900 (has links)
The thesis is a qualitative study from critical theory perspectives to enhance
understanding of how systemically mainstream organizations marginalize social work
practice with ethno-racial minorities. It also explores strategic implications for systemic
change based on field research findings. Ten social workers from Edmonton – the
provincial capital city of Alberta, Canada - participated in investigative dialogues for the
thesis field research. These research participants’ workplace stories lend themselves to
explore three questions: what does marginalization of practice with ethno-racial
minorities look like in mainstream organizational settings; what is there to understand
about it as a systemic issue and what the research findings imply for change strategies.
A critical analysis of dialogic data thematically identifies everyday work issues
that describe how practice with ethno-racial minorities is kept at the operational and
service-delivery fringe of individual workplaces. These thematic findings point to
broader issues of the mainstream human service organization sector. These broader
issues further highlight how the practice marginalization of concern in this thesis is a
systemically constructed issue. These broader issues are mainstream benevolence, social
work as an employment regime, multicultural service delivery as a thrill and clientization
of ethno-racial minorities.
In consideration of these sector-wide issues, implied change strategies reveal
three thematic directions for systemic transformational change: (i) continued dialoguing
involving concerned social workers and ethno-racial minority community leaders, (ii)
community social work to build and foster coalitionary activist work and organizations,
and (iii) participatory research involving a community sharing concern of the practice
marginalization issue so as to build a strong knowledge-base to support and empower broad-base activist endeavour to effect change about mainstream human service
organizations. / Social Work / D. Phil. (Social Work)
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