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Reconciliation and Social Work Practice in Canada

2025· article· en· W7163482113 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Nicole Ives

Bibliographic record

VenueInstitutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicForgiveness and Related Behaviors
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSocial workIndigenousColonialismContext (archaeology)Social changeMetisAction (physics)Social philosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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This chapter discusses changes in Canadian social work education stimulated by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) .First, an historical summary of social work in Canada is provided related to Indigenous peoples.In the Canadian context, Indigenous refers to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples.Elements of Canada s settler colonialism history are unpacked, illustrating how colonialism has (mis) shaped and (mis) informed contemporary social work practice.Second, implications for social work education and practice are presented through discussion of five Calls to Action of the TRC, focusing on a reconciliation path of the School of Social Work (SSW) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (or, more hopefully, a path leading towards reconciliaction , a term applied to the Canadian context by TRC Commissioner Chief Warren Littlechild) .Reconciliaction lies at the intersection of reflective-and actionbased reconciliation.As Solverson (2018) cautions, while cursory reconciliation rhetoric is easy and self-affirming, meaningful reconciliaction is necessarily difficult and uncomfortable (p. 2) .The final section is devoted to a discussion of how authentic Indigenization, or reconciliaction, in social work can be practiced on the ground in communities and whether social workers could be effective and do no harm if they fail to question social work practice s transportability across cultures and languages or its relevance to the contexts in which it is being transplanted (Gray & Hetherington, 2013: 27) . Historical contextsContemporary social work practice that is respectful, relational, and supportive of holistic client well-being relies on critical reflection on social work s history in Canada and acknowledges that the social work profession has had a predominantly negative history with Indigenous Peoples in Canada.Reports on Indigenous children s living conditions from inside Residential Schools were available to social workers (e.g., Bryce,

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.678
Threshold uncertainty score0.638

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.295
Teacher spread0.282 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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