Demonstrate and enhance the important skill of reflection. Write a referenced critical reflection on how you might ‘decolonise’ your professional practice as a social work student. Write in the first person, as you reflect on the influence of your previous knowledge and experience of Indigenous Australian Peoples and their culture before studying an indigenous unit. Using your critical analysis skills, aim to articulate how your learning journey in this unit so far has heightened your understanding of, and motivation for working alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in a culturally safe and respectful way. The type of themes you may wish to reflect on: • what motivates you to become a social work professional? (I love to be working in a humanitarian field and help people) • who what inspired/s you in this direction? • what did you know and not know before your learning in this unit? (different health issues that indigenous people have and about the injustice they go through) • what personal and professional biases, assumptions and attitudes are you questioning now? PLEASE INCLUDE 4 PEER-REVIEWED REFERENCES
