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WS5109:03

Anti Racist Social Welfare Practice

External

HECS Band 1

Semester 2.

Staff:

Dr S Gair.

This subject connects postgraduate students with the study of race, racism, reconciliation and anti-racist practice. The study of racism demonstrates that Indigenous and non-Indigenous people are differentially located within the psycho-historical, socio-political and linguistic Australian terrain. This subject will demonstrate this through an historical analysis of the structural location of Australia's Indigenous people. The study of global and national reconciliation indicates the potential of the Australian reconciliation agenda of the 1990s to liberate us from the racist imperatives of the capitalist, western democratic state. This study will demonstrate the liberatory power of anti-racist and reconciliatory practice. Students will engage in unravelling the potential of the human services to either be party to the racism of the state or to challenge this through reconciliatory welfare practice.

Learning Objectives:

articulate an historical understanding of the Australian Indigenous-non-Indigenous relationship;

recognise racist practices generally and within their welfare settings particularly;

engage with Indigenous people through a demonstration of political empathy and reconciliatory practice;

recognise their margin of autonomy for developing welfare practice which is inclusive of Indigenous people at political, social, economic and linguistic levels of practice.

Assessment by assignments (50%); presentations (50%).