He Wero: The Challenge of Putting Your Body on the Line: Teaching and Learning in Anti-Racist Practice.

This paper explores ways in which social workers, community workers and social work educators have developed anti-racist practice in relation to indigenous issues in Aotearoa/New Zealand. A brief history of anti-racism training in Aotearoa/New Zealand is provided, showing how this has been reflected in the Massey University Bachelor of Social Work programme. The core of the discussion describes the application of a structural analysis model to engage students in identifying their own culture and how they situate their experiences in relation to the indigenous Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Processes of Maori tikanga (custom) and whole person/soul learning are utilised to prepare students to engage with the Bicultural Code of Practice of the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers, which mandates partnership under the Treaty of Waitangi, acknowledging Maori as the indigenous people of Aotearoa/New Zealand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]