Reimagining Social Work Ancestry: Toward Epistemic Decolonization

Contextualizing disciplinary histories through the personal stories of forerunners creates compelling narratives craft evolving professions. By looking to our intellectual and practitioner ancestors, we participate in a dialogue with history that shapes contemporary professional identities aspirations for future. Grounded decolonizing approach social work, this article examines how discipline its identity ways knowing by centering role canonical founders work curriculum. The global origin story curriculum often centers on Anglo-American ancestors illustrate development boundaries international profession. One method epistemology at intersection lineage could be look public as pedagogical tool concludes examining use podcasts having potential decolonize process collecting, analyzing, disseminating local knowledge thus challenging top-down expert-driven epistemologies.