This issue of Critical Social Work is a collection of papers from the Annual conference (2002) of the Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work held in Toronto. The theme of the conference was “Anti-Oppressive Practice and Global Transformation: Challenges for Social Work and Social Welfare”.

Introduction: Anti-Oppressive Practice: Challenges for Social Work		Steven Hick
Educating for Justice: Challenges and openings at the beginning of a new century		Suzanne Dudziak
A Rationale for an Anti-Racist Entry Point to Anti-Oppressive Social Work in Mental Health Services		Charmaine C. Williams
Poetically Teaching/Doing the Profession of Social Work as a Joyful UnDisciplined Discipline-Jumper and Genre-Jumper		Si Transken
Exploring the Insider Role in Community Practice Within Diverse Communities		Bill Lee Susan McGrath Ken Moffatt Usha George
Challenging Hidden Oppression: Mothers Caring for Children with Disabilities		Alice Home
Western Colonization as Disease: Native Adoption & Cultural Genocide		Wesley Crichlow