Walking This Path Together
Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive Child Welfare Practice
2nd Edition
Published on 31. July 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
322 pages
978-1-55266-789-7 (ISBN)
Description
Walking This Path Together is an edited collection devoted to improving the lives of children and families that come to the attention of child welfare authorities by demonstrating and advocating for socially just child welfare practices. In this new, updated edition, authors provide special consideration to the historical and political context of child welfare in Canada and theoretical ideas and concrete practices that support practitioners, educators and students who are looking for anti-racist, anti-oppressive and anti-colonial perspectives on child welfare practice.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Black Point, Nova Scotia
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 155 mm
Width: 229 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
478 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55266-789-7 (9781552667897)
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Gwendolyn Gosek | Michele Fairbairn | Jeannine Carriere
Walking This Path Together
Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive Child Welfare Practice
Book
04/2025
3rd Edition
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
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Previous edition
Jeannine Carriere | Susan Strega
Walking This Path Together.
Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive Child Welfare Practice
Book
02/2009
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
€52.81
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Persons
Dr. Jeannine Carrière is a Metis woman originally from the Red River area of Manitoba. Her educational background includes a PhD in Human Ecology Family Studies, an MSW a BSW and a BA in Sociology. She is an Associate Professor at the University Of Victoria School Of Social Work in the Indigenous Specialization. Her research interests include child and adoption and issues of identity, mental health, and Indigenous ways of knowing and knowledge transfer. Dr. Carriere has several publications in these research areas and serves on a number of volunteer committees related to Aboriginal child welfare. In 2008 she received the Adoption Activist award from the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC).