Using Social Research for Social Justice

This book will inspire the next generation of social work and human service practitioners to integrate research into their everyday social justice practice. Through highlighting the centrality of values to the task of research and the possibilities for enacting social justice through our research practice, it argues for respectful, meaningful, and just relationships with the people with whom we do research and build knowledge; acknowledges the ongoing impact of colonialism; respects diversity; and commits to working towards social change. With First Nations Worldviews ¿ ways of knowing, ways of being, ways of doing ¿ weaved throughout the text, this book seeks to both reclaim ancient knowledges and disrupt Western research traditions.

Divided into three sections, this book provides 

• a strong rationale for the importance of research skills to social work and human service practice;
• a step-by-step guide on doing social research aimed at novi