Indigenization in a globalizing world: A response to Yunong and Xiong (2008)

Gray, Mel

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“…In the context of this paper, indigenization of the people under study brought out different voices and ways of knowing within particular socio-historical and cultural locations, and established a local basis for social work practice (Gray, 2010). Such a role is reposed to the value of culture as an influence on their coping mechanism in battling unwanted psychological episodes such as depression.…”

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2017

IAFOR J Psychol Behav Sci

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Independent mood traits comprise three primary components -pleasure, arousal, and dominance (Mehrabian, 1996). Forecasting these traits is beneficial for several subjects, such as behavioral science, cognitive science, decision making, mood disorders treatment, and virtual character development in artificial intelligence. In this study, an extended model is proposed to predict independent mood components based on the emotion and mood history of 108 individuals with different backgrounds and personalities. Emotion history of all these individuals was recorded hourwise for six days, and their daily mood history obtained. The proposed model consists of various types of statistical forecasting methods, such as Holt-Winter's additive model and seasonal time series model, by integrating current known appraisal theories and aided by mood history probability distribution. The predicted values for the seventh day and the trend of the outcome results reveal that: (1) Pleasure mood trait trend varies significantly between individuals, but it can be considered as predictable; (2) Arousal mood trait is unpredictable for a short time interval; however, it is possible to have close predictions over long time intervals. (3) Dominance mood trait can be predicted for a short time interval, but not for a long time interval. These findings can shed light on the way mood states and behavior of human beings can be predicted.As expected, personality traits of these individuals differed significantly from each other. As soon as the OCEAN personality traits of the individuals were obtained, their initial PAD traits were also measured by the mapping explained in section 2.2. For example, for one of the individuals Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism were found to be 0.65, 0.97, 0.35, 0.60, and 0.45, respectively. Therefore, by using the mentioned mapping from OCEAN personality traits to PAD (Mehrabian, 1996; Gebhard, 2004), the participant's initial pleasure, arousal, and dominance traits were found to be 0.51, 0.02, and 0.34, respectively. Table 1 made it possible to create time series data for emotion states regarding PAD mood traits. Different types of time series forecasting models were suggested by using SPSS for each mood component of each individual with 95 percent confidence. It has been observed that the trends for pleasure mood component differed significantly from one person to another, but it had a predictable direction for more than 98 percent of individuals. On The mapping illustrated in

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“…The discourses on indigenisation in the field of social work criticise professional imperialism, question western values and theories, emphasise the importance of the indigenous social and cultural structures and stress the irrelevance of western theories and approaches developed in the metropolitan states in the western world and in non-western contexts (Tomaselli & Shepperson, 1999;Yunong & Xiong, 2008;& Gray, 2010).…”

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Indigenising the Curricula in Ethiopia from a Gamo Ethnic Group Perspective: The Case of Constitutional, Policy and Strategy Provisions

Yishak¹,

Gumbo²

2014

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“…Finally, they suggested that the argument of professional imperialism in social work needs further examination. Gray (2010) responded to Huang and Zhang's (2008) arguments and suggested that Huang and Zhang overlooked many issues in indigenization. She indicated that indigenization in social work was not normative but brought out different voices and ways of knowing within particular sociohistorical and cultural locations, thus establishing 'a local basis for localized social work practice' (Gray and Coates, 2008: 19, as cited in Gray, 2010: 124) .…”

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“…Indigenization as an inherent requirement of the social work profession Gray (2010) argued that indigenization brought out different voices and ways of knowing within particular socio-historical and cultural locations and established a local basis for localized social work practice. Gray and Coates (2010) also regarded indigenization as a way to develop indigenous social work knowledge, which is based on culturally and locally relevant and problem-oriented research.…”

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Further discussion of indigenization in social work: A response to Gray and Coates

Huang

Xiong²

2011

International Social Work

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This article responds to Gray's (2010) and Gray and Coates' (2010) responses to A Reflection on Indigenization Discourse in Social Work (Huang and Zhang, 2008), and presents further discussion of indigenization in social work. We indicate that it is an inherent professional requirement for social workers to use different ways to understand local contexts and to do locally relevant research and practice. We extend to address some points of indigenization from the Chinese perspective. The problems with the emphasis on culture in indigenization are also discussed. It is suggested that indigenization is likely to bring harm to social work.

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Indigenization in a globalizing world: A response to Yunong and Xiong (2008)

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Indigenising the Curricula in Ethiopia from a Gamo Ethnic Group Perspective: The Case of Constitutional, Policy and Strategy Provisions

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