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Prioritising Indigenous Considerations within Diversity FrameworksYvonne Crichton-Hill, Annabel Taylor. The setting up and design of a new Human Services Degree within the Social Work Department at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand offered an opportunity to examine how diversity would be incorporated and developed within the new programme.
In the context of Aotearoa/New Zealand this necessitated an examination of how to prioritise indigenous considerations within the broader diversity framework or whether these concerns require separate recognition. This raises the question of relativism in terms of the notion of diversity versus conflict theory and the recognition of power differentials. The challenge is to develop a theoretical framework for the new degree that recognises the special status of tangata whenua at the same time as recognising the diversity of New Zealand society. The authors undertook to develop a framework which could be transported across the discrete papers within the degree so that diversity becomes an integrated part of each course rather than an afterthought. This required a deconstruction of diversity theory and a reconstruction applicable to our unique context. Presenters Yvonne Crichton-Hill
(New Zealand)
Lecturer in Social Work Department of Social work University of Canterbury Yvonne Crichton-Hill has been a lecturer with the Department of Social Work, University of Canterbury since 2001. She has 16 years experience as a social worker and trainer with the Department of Child, Youth and Family, in the areas of child protection and youth justice. Yvonne has published in the areas of counselling practice with Samoan people, domestic violence, particularly with regard to Samoan born and New Zealand born Samoan women, and in the area of teaching cross-cultural social work. Yvonne is a board member of Pacific Trust Canterbury whose work focuses on social service provision to Pacific peoples in the fields of child and mental health, and violence prevention and education. She is a member of the New Zealand Social Workers Registration Board. Yvonne has a particular interest in the area of cross-cultural social work practice and is committed to the development of social work skills through teaching and reflective practice.
Annabel Taylor
(New Zealand)
Department of Social Work University of Canterbury
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(60 min. Workshop,
English)
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