Browsing Social Practice Conference Papers by Title
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Jade Speaks Up : a resource for people working with children affected by violence
(2017-10)* What needs changing? Children and violence * What is family violence? * Children witnessing violence * It's Not Ok campaign aims * What do children need to keep themselves safe? * What are healthy relationships? * ... -
Just Practice : a framework for social change
(2015)Just “community work” practice in Aotearoa New Zealand. • Centralised by a focus on social justice and transformative social change. • One could say that these individuals and groups are “just” practitioners -
Just practice : an educative paradigm for social change
(2014)Our context - from Aotearoa NZ. We both have backgrounds in sociology Both undertook social work education after studying sociology Provides tools of social analysis to identify sites of resistance The traditions ... -
‘Lay’ roles on research ethics committees : North American vs. New Zealand experiences
(2014)Unique situation in NZ: in the wake of the 1988 Cartwright Inquiry (extreme abuse of medical power in research), 50% of committee composition is lay. Keep in check researcher and institutional power Also, power to ... -
Learning contracts and self-evaluation
(1998-10)This paper focuses on possible ways of improving student motivation and methods of assessment at tertiary level. It also addresses the need for integration of theory, practice and experience in the teaching/learning process ... -
Looks like a classroom to us
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-13)Neoliberal ideologies, with their emphasis on the rule of markets, and community development, which promotes ground-up collective social change and human rights, stand in stark contrast to each other. In a social practice ... -
Manawanui : illuminating contemporary meanings of culturally effective social work supervision in Te Taitokerau/Northland. Research presentation
(2017-09)Being Māori in this millennium means being a part of the global community of indigenous knowledge. The repositioning of indigenous knowledge requires the disruption and decentralising of dominant discourses alongside the ... -
MANAWANUI : Indigenous relationships co-creating sacred spaces, an expression of social work supervision from Te Taitokerau, Aotearoa, New Zealand.
(2018-07)Research Methodology The Participants Kaupapa Māori Research Ethics and Principles Visual Mind Mapping of the Conceptual Themes Underlying Currents of Injustices to Indigenous People are Ever -Present The Participants ... -
Mālie and māfana : a transformational approach to research with a vulnerable indigenous community
(2019-10)This paper reports on an innovation in research practice developed during the course of a project involving work with vulnerable Pacific (Tongan) youth. It proposes an extension of the Kakala Research Framework, designed ... -
Māori and the justice system : a Community response.
(2017-11)An examination of the quality of legal representation young Māori men receive in the criminal justice system. -
The mental health service needs of the Deaf and the development of a National Plan
(1998-10)Issues surrounding the mental health of Deaf people receive little attention from practitioners in mental health services. International studies have shown that Deaf people are vulnerable to misdiagnosis of mental illness, ... -
Opening the “black box” of social work field education assessment: Developing supportive learning strategies through the use of digital technologies
(2021-12)Social work field education Sudent's perspectives on field education The black box of traditional field education assessment Undertaking a change process What has changed in the wider context? What we have been told ... -
Perceptions of community safety in West Auckland and white fragility.
(2017-02)Unitec and Community Waitakere have recently completed a Lottery’s Foundation funded project looking at the contemporary issues affecting the perceptions of safety in West Auckland communities. A review of eight recent ... -
A perspective on S4.5 Residence Category for Victims of Domestic Violence (VDV) Policy : addressing domestic violence against ‘ethnic’ women
(2019-12)This presentation will focus on S4.5 Residence Category for victims of violence (Operational Manual - Immigration New Zealand), in the context of intimate partner violence experienced by women of migrant and refugee ... -
Polynesians in Auckland
(2006)This paper compares some recent films set in the contested terrains of Auckland - sometimes called the biggest Polynesian city. The film Once Were Warriors depicts the violence and despair of Maori life in the outer suburbs. ... -
Professional development for established academic staff : the effectiveness of a writing programme
(2016-09)Situate the writing programme in existing literature Describe participants and programme content Present some initial findings Review planned programme evaluation -
Pursuing peace and justice : confronting oppression in Palestine. Findings of Delegation to the West Bank, January 2016
(Unitec ePress, 2017-02)The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals include pursuing peace and justice, ending poverty, reducing inequalities, and sustainable cities and communities. Currently these goals are far from being realised for ... -
Redeeming one's reputation : reputation, counter-reputation
(2014)REPUTATION: So easily lost So easily gained So hard to regain Young people are particularly vulnerable to the losing and gaining of reputation with powerful consequences. -
A reimagination of 'preferential option for the poor' in the context of postcolonial political theology in Africa
(2014)This paper argues uses data (experiences) from my doctoral project completed in 2013, investigating the experiences of women and youth living with HIV in Kenya and their participation in HIV and AIDS policy making processes ...
