TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mafile'o, Tracie
TI  - Tongan metaphors of social work practice: hangē ha Pā kuo Fa'u'
PY  - 2005///
KW  - FVC
KW  - INTERVENTION
KW  - AUKATI TŪKINOTANGA
KW  - SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
KW  - TOKO I TE ORA
KW  - THESES
KW  - TUHINGA WHAKAPAE
KW  - PACIFIC PEOPLES
KW  - TĀNGATA O TE MOANA-NUI-Ā-KIWA
KW  - PASIFIKA
KW  - PREVENTION
KW  - TONGAN PEOPLE
KW  - TŪKINOTANGA Ā-WHĀNAU
KW  - NEW ZEALAND
N1  - nz
N2  - Thesis (PhD - Social Work) - Massey University, 2005. This study explores Tongan social work practice and examines how social and community work is constructed from a Tongan worldview. Twenty-eight Tongan social workers in Aotearoa New Zealand participated in individual interviews and focus group meetings, which explored the Tongan values, knowledge, skills and processes foundational to their practice. The participants' narratives contribute to an understanding of Tongan conceptions of wellbeing, personal and social change, and to an identification of key components of a Tongan theoretical framework for social and community work practice. This exploratory study contributes to the growing literature articulating indigenous and non-western frameworks for social and community work practice. The thesis argues that if social and community work is to be transformative, it must itself be transformed and its very foundations reshaped by Tongan and other indigenous, non-western voices.--AUTHOR'S ABSTRACT
UR  - https://files.vine.org.nz/koha-files/Tracie Mafileo.pdf
ER  -