ASSESSMENT TASK (Bachelor of Social Work): Essay 1 Headings/Notes as per professor’s requirement: Use Headings: 1 – Critical Reflection – Pre-Intensive Modules 2- Explore and reflect on your own Positionality Aboriginal Standpoint – own cultural identity /worldview 3- Explore and critiques the impact of colonisation, whiteness, the Stolen Generation, on SW Practice, explore how you will decolonise your self and your social work practice. 4- Demonstrate insight into your own power and privilege, structural disadvantage and oppression. 5- How will you be a change agent and ally and how will you engage in activism to effect change Assessment: Critical reflexive practice 2000 words (variation 10%), 12-14 references and in-text cite, APA7. Aim of assessment: Literature supports the process of decolonising one’s heart and mind and this process includes ‘… acknowledging the ongoing process of colonisation, identifying and articulating it, and addressing both the mindsets and the resulting injustices that occur’ (Green & Baldry, 2013, p. 172). This assessment asks you to consider the impact of colonialism upon yourself and social work in Australia, and how you can apply a decolonising perspective to yourself and your future social work practice. This assessment also encourages you to reflect honestly upon your participation during the pre-intensive and intensive yarning circles. Your use of language is very important, so please be very aware when preparing assessments. This includes the need for the use of capitals (for example Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples) and NOT using abbreviations (e.g. do not use the term ATSI). Instructions of assessment: Under three sections/headings 1. Reflect upon critical reflexive practice and consider your participation in the yarning circles (pre-intensive and intensive), through your participation in these yarning circles what did you learn about both non-Indigenous and Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing and what did you learn about yourself during this process. Contemplate your interactions with others and your ability to listen deeply (dadirri) and to learn from others. 2. Reflect on standpoint theory and identify and articulate your personal standpoint, explore your own social privileges, power, world views, cultural values and personal attitudes, identify and articulate how you have been impacted by colonisation. Locate yourself within the systems of power and oppression that you exist in, consider your colonised thinking, attitudes and the consequences. Include how you may be complicit in continuing colonisation and injustices, and how colonisation impacts your relationship with Indigenous and non-Indigenous people? 3. Identify and articulate how social work in Australia has been impacted by colonisation, include Whiteness. Reflect upon the decolonisation process, what are the key elements to decolonising oneself and your future social work practice? Consider how you can be an agent of change and decolonise yourself and your future practice. For example, reflect upon how you can engage in deconstructing colonial ideologies, challenge and disrupt structures, including discourse and power that maintain the status quo. Discuss social work interventions that support the creation of a ‘third space’ for social work practice. In each reflection consider honestly any unconscious biases, imbalances of power, privilege, racism and discrimination. Assessment Criteria: • Responded to assessment task • Content knowledge of the impact of colonisation and the process of decolonisation. • Content knowledge of standpoint theory and critical reflexive practice. • Demonstrates self-awareness and the ability to self-reflect. • Applied knowledge and critique • Academic conventions have been used e.g., language used, referencing.
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