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Featured Publication

Critical Social Work Praxis

edited by Teresa Macías

What we think must inform what we do, argue the editors and authors of this cutting-edge social work textbook. In this innovative, expansive and wide-ranging collection, leading social work thinkers engage with social work traditions to bridge social work theory and practice and arrive at social work praxis: a uniting of critical thought and ethical action. Critical Social Work Praxis is organized into sixteen sections, each reflecting a critical social work tradition or approach. Each section has a theory chapter, which succinctly outlines the tradition’s main concepts or tenets, a praxis chapter, which shows how the theory informs social work practice, and a commentary chapter, which provides a critical analysis of the tensions and difficulties of the approach. The text helps students understand how to extend theory into praxis and gives instructors critical new tools and discussion ideas. This book is the result of decades of experience teaching social work theory and praxis and is a comprehensive teaching and learning tool for the critical social work classroom.

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Teresa Macías
2022

Macías T. (2022) Critical Social Work Praxis. Fernwood Publishing.

Teresa Macías
2022

Macías T. & Razack S. H. (2022) Unravelling Research: The Ethics and Politics of Research in the Social Sciences. Fernwood …

Dog's Best Friend?

Atsuko Matsuoka
2019

Sorenson, J. & Matsuoka, A. (Eds). (2019) Dog’s Best Friend?: Rethinking Human-Canid Relations. Montreal and Kingston: McGill & Queen University …

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Susan McGrath
2019

McGrath, S., & Young, J. E. E. (Eds). (2019). Mobilizing Global Knowledge: Refugee Research in an Age of Displacement. Calgary: …

A Violent History of Benevolence Book Cover

Chris Chapman
2019

Chapman, C. & A.J. Withers. (2019) A Violent History of Benevolence: Interlocking Oppression in the Moral Economies of Social Working. …

Sharing Breath Book Cover

Yuk-Lin Renita Wong
2018

Batacharya, Sheila, and Yuk-Lin Renita Wong, eds. 2018. Sharing breath: Embodied learning and decolonization. Edmonton, Canada: Athabasca University Press.

Imagining Child Welfare

Daniel Kikulwe
2018

Montgomery, M., Badry, Kikulwe, D., Bennett, M., & Fuch, D.(Eds.). (2018) “Imagining child welfare in the spirit of reconciliation: Voices …

Critical Animal Studies Book Cover

Atsuko Matsuoka
2018

Matsuoka, A. and Sorenson, J. (Eds). (2018) Critical Animal Studies: Toward Trans-species Social Justice, London: Rowman & Littlefield International.

Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights Book Cover

Nick Mulé
2018

Nicol, N., Jjuuko A., Lusimbo, R. Mulé, N.J., Ursell, S., Wahab, A. & Waugh, P.  (Eds.) (2018). Envisioning Global LGBT …

Transnational Social Policy Book Cover

Luann Good Gingrich
2017

Good Gingrich, L. & Köngeter, S. (Eds.). (2017). Transnational social policy – Social welfare in a world on the move. …

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Nick Mulé
2017

Mulé, N.J. & DeSantis, G.C. (Eds.) (2017). The Shifting Terrain: Public Policy Advocacy in Canada. Montreal, QC-Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Working with immigrants and Refugees Book Cover

Uzo Anucha
2017

Yan, M. C. & Anucha, U. (Eds.) (2017). Working with Immigrants and Refugees: Issues, Theories, and Approaches for Social Work …

Out of Place Book Cover

Luann Good Gingrich
2016

Good Gingrich, L.(2016) Out of place: Social exclusion and Mennonite migrants in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Queering Social Work Education Book Cover

Nick Mulé
2016

Hillock, S. & Mulé, N.J. (Eds.) (2016). Queering Social Work Education. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.

Transforming Child Welfare Book Cover

Daniel Kikulwe
2016

Montgomery, M., Fuch, D., Badry, D. & Kikulwe, D.  (Eds.) (2016) “Child welfare transformations interdisciplinary practices, field education and research” …

LGNTQ People and Social Work Book Cover

Nick Mulé
2015

O’Neill, B.J., Swan, T.A. & Mulé, N.J. (Eds.) (2015). LGBTQ People and Social Work: Intersectional Perspectives. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press.