Derivative and indigenous in the history and historiography of child welfare in Australia: Part Two

2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shurlee Swain
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Child Welfare Services ◽  
Indigenous Child ◽  
Limited Access ◽  
Indigenous Children ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
Building Project

This article traces the history of child welfare in Australia, showing the ways in which policies and practices, deriving primarily from Britain, were adopted and adapted in a nation in which jurisdiction was split between colonies/states and further divided, within states, on the basis of race. It argues that child welfare has always been part of the nation-building project, central to national objectives when children could be constructed as future citizens, marginal, and more punitive, when they were more easily understood as threats to social stability. In this second part, it discusses post-war developments in services for non-indigenous children, and indigenous child welfare services. It concludes with a discussion of the historiography of child welfare in Australia arguing that because, to date, historical writing has concentrated on localised or specialist studies, child welfare professionals have limited access to an understanding of the history of the systems within which they work.

Derivative and indigenous in the history and historiography of child welfare in Australia: Part One

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shurlee Swain
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Child Welfare Services ◽  
Welfare Provision ◽  
Subsequent Issue ◽  
Indigenous Child ◽  
Indigenous Children ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
Building Project

This article traces the history of child welfare in Australia, showing the ways in which policies and practices, deriving primarily from Britain, were adopted and adapted in a nation in which jurisdiction was split between colonies/states and further divided, within states, on the basis of race. It argues that child welfare has always been part of the nation-building project, central to national objectives when children could be constructed as future citizens, marginal, and more punitive, when they were more easily understood as threats to social stability. In this first part it examines the history of welfare provision for non-indigenous children in Australia from 1788 to 1939. The second part, to be published in a subsequent issue, will discuss post-war developments in services for non-indigenous children, indigenous child welfare services and the historiography of child welfare in Australia.

scholarly journals Indigenous Child Welfare in Canada

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Christian Zukowski
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Canadian Identity ◽  
Indigenous Child

This paper is primarily a case study of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal case Caring Society v Canada and seeks to accomplish three things. First, create a theoretical foundation built upon historic instances of discriminatory/assimilationist policies based upon theoretical understandings of social reproduction, biopolitics, and neoliberalism. Second, to situate Caring Society within said theoretical framework for the purpose of determining the context in which it occurs and the role of the case's context in producing discriminatory/assimilationist policy. Third is the application of both the theoretical framework as well as Caring Society to determine how the Canadian state engages in nation building through processes of othering and framing Indigenous peoples as a foreign threat to the security of the Canadian identity. In doing so, I not only argue that Indigenous child welfare is the perpetuation of residential schools, but that it systematically breaks down Indigenous children and Indigenous communities in response to their perceived threat through processes of othering and nation-building.

Shared heritage and differing values in child welfare services in Scotland and North Carolina

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-170
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Beerman ◽  
Mark Smith
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Welfare Services ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison ◽  
Shared History ◽  
Protection De L’Enfance ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
History Of ◽  
Structural Contrast

English The unique shared history of Scotland and North Carolina offers fertile ground for cross-cultural comparison of child welfare approaches. This preliminary study yields a rich scholarly and structural contrast, which allows for deeper understanding of how cultural differences affect the delivery of child welfare services. French La situation historique unique de l'Écosse et de la Caroline du Nord qui ont un passé commun offre un terrain fertile pour l'é tude comparative des diffé rences interculturelles en ce qui a trait aux approches en matiè re de protection de l'enfance. L'é tude pré liminaire ré vè le un riche contraste sur les plans du savoir et des structures, ce qui permet de mieux saisir l'impact des diffé rences culturelles sur la livraison des services de protection de l'enfance. Spanish La historia única compartida entre Escocia y Carolina del Norte ofrece un terreno fé rtil para las aproximaciones a la comparación transcultural en el bienestar infantil. Este estudio preliminar produce un rico contraste tanto estructural como en conocimientos, el cual permite un entendimiento más profundo sobre la manera en que las diferencias culturales impactan la adjudicación de los servicios de bienestar infantil.

scholarly journals From the Past to the Future: Changing Agendas in Teacher Education between the 19th and the 21st Century

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 43-70
Author(s):  
Anne Rohstock ◽  
Daniel Tröhler
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
History Of Education ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Professional Educators ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Cold War

The educational turn of the late eighteenth century, nation building of the nineteenth century, and efforts to promote global unity after the two World Wars did not only have effects on educational organizations, policies, and materials, but also on the manner with which the major actors in the world of education—namely, teachers – were trained. The different ideals and agendas in teacher training reflected the major cultural concerns of each era: in the nineteenth century, this was national uniqueness and supremacy, which, in the post war period, gave way to internationalization and global standardization. These visions were associated with the emergence of particular academic subfields and heavily shaped pedagogical ideals. In the era of nation building, the history of education dominated teacher education. In the context of the Cold War teacher training was aligned with a new internationalist and scientific paradigm. The following chapter discusses these two agendas in teacher education. In the first section we will reconstruct the rise of the history of education as a major subject in nationalist and religiously inspired teacher education in Germany and France. In the second section we will show how this leitmotif in the Cold War era was supplanted by a “cognitive turn” in the training of professional educators.

scholarly journals IMMEDIATE RESPONSE: ADDRESSING ANTI-NATIVE AND ANTI-BLACK RACISM IN CHILD WELFARE

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Pon ◽  
Kevin Gosine ◽  
Doret Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Black Children ◽  
Child Welfare Services ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Critical Race Feminism ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
Post War

<p>Anti-oppression emerged in the 1990s as a perspective for challenging inequalities and accommodating diversity within the field of social work, including child welfare in Canada. Using the concepts of white supremacy, anti-Black, and anti-Native racism in conjunction with the notion of the exalted national subject (Thobani, 2007), we contend that any understanding of the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Black children in the care of child welfare services must be located within the wider narrative of white supremacy that has underpinned the formation of the post-war welfare state. This overrepresentation highlights the need to shift from anti-oppression to critical race feminism and anti-colonialism perspectives in order to address more effectively anti-Black and anti-Native racism and the economy of child welfare.</p>

Studies on the Chinese in Southeast Asia in the twenty-first century

2010 ◽  
Vol 166 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-544
Author(s):  
Kwee Hui Kian
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Academic Press ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
Chinese Studies ◽  
Singapore Chinese ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Of Hawai'i ◽  
Building Project ◽  
Malaysian Chinese

Review of: Michael D. Barr and Zlatko Skrbis, Constructing Singapore; Elitism, ethnicity and the nation-building project. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2008, xiii + 304 pp. ISBN 978877694028, price GBP 50.00 (hardback); 9788776940294, GBP 16.99 (paperback). Marleen Dieleman, The rhythm of strategy; A corporate biography of the Salim Group of Indonesia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007, 205 pp. [ICAS Publications Series, Monograph 1.] ISBN 9789053560334. Price: EUR 29.50 (paperback). Kristina Goransson, The binding tie; Chinese intergenerational relations in modern Singapore. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2009, x + 191 pp. ISBN 9780824832599, price USD 57.00 (hardback); 9780824833527, USD 26.00 (paperback). Chang-Yau Hoon, Chinese identity in post-Suharto Indonesia; Culture, politics and media. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2008, xi + 230 pp. ISBN 9781845192686. Price: GBP 49.95 (hardback). Leo Suryadinata, Understanding the ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007, x + 310 pp. ISBN 9789812304377. Price: USD 21.90 (paperback). Sikko Visscher, The business of politics and ethnicity; A history of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Singapore: NUS Press, 2007, xviii + 372 pp. ISBN 97899713657. Price: USD 32.00 (paperback). Voon Phin Keong (ed.), Malaysian Chinese and nation-building; Before Merdeka and fifty years after. Vol. 2. Kuala Lumpur: Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies, 2008. ISBN 9789833808066 (hardback); 9789833908059 (paperback).

Geoffrey Lewis, The Turkish language reform, a catastrophic success. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 190. HB $65.00.

2002 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 645-647
Author(s):  
Ismail Aydingün ◽  
Ayşegül Aydingün
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
General Reader ◽  
Language Reform ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Reading Matter ◽  
History Of ◽  
Turkish Language ◽  
Building Project

Geoffrey Lewis's book traces the history of Turkish language reform with fascinating style. The reader is provided with rich and well-selected examples, and the translation from Turkish to English is excellent. The author's experience of Turkey and his competence in Turkish are clear throughout. He states that the book has two purposes: to acquaint the general reader with the history of Turkish language reform, and to provide students at all levels of Turkish with some useful and stimulating reading matter. Lewis is successful on both counts. Furthermore, the book is significant in that it sheds light on the fact that, although language reform is not a well-known aspect of the Kemalist revolution, it played a vital role in the creation of the Turkish national identity. In other words, the aim of Turkish language reform was not simply to “purify” the language by eliminating foreign words and foreign grammatical features; rather, it was part of a nation-building project.

scholarly journals Anti-oppressive social work practice in child welfare

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Cowie
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
School System ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Residential School ◽  
The Social ◽  
Indigenous Children ◽  
History Of

This article explores the journey of reconciliation, both personal and professional, required for the social work profession to shed its history of colonialism in the context of its relationship with Canada’s Indigenous People, particularly in the realm of child welfare. This process involves becoming accountable for past harms such as the residential school system, the mass removal of children during the ‘60’s scoop’, as well as the contemporary over-representation of Indigenous children in Canada’s child welfare system. Further, this process demands that non-Indigenous social workers locate their privilege in order to become effective allies and partners along this path of reconciliation.

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