Decolonising Social Work EducationKris Clarke Michael Wallengren-Lynch Michael Yellow BirdLabel: RoutledgeDescription: In a world gripped by intersecting crises and deepening inequalities can social work break free from its colonial entanglements to imagine a more just and compassionate future?Decolonising Social Work Education: Memory Haunting and Critical Hope in the Nordics confronts the enduring legacies of colonialism that continue to shape the foundations of social work education. Through the lenses of haunting memory and critical hope it challenges the discipline’s historical complicity with systems of domination and calls for a radical reimagining of its pedagogical core. Grounded in pluriversal knowledges and informed by decolonial thought this book advocates for a transformative relational curriculum—one that resists neoliberalism carceral logics and epistemic injustice.Drawing on examples from the Nordic context it offers a bold vision for social work rooted in justice equity and ecological interconnectedness. With humility reflection and collective imagination it charts a path towards a liberatory future where social work becomes a force for healing and transformation.
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