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Promoting “Critical Awareness” and Critiquing “Cultural Competence”: Towards Disrupting Received Professional Knowledges

Mark Furlong School of Social Work and Social Policy, La Trobe University, Victoria, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
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James Wight New Hope Foundation, Footscray Refugee Resource Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Pages 38-54 | Accepted 26 Oct 2010, Published online: 24 Feb 2011

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