Full Description
This timely Routledge Handbook creates a much-needed space to explore what makes social work uniquely African, as well as shaping, informing, and influencing a new culturally relevant era of social work. The specific focus on social work education offers approaches to transition away from the hegemony of Western literature, knowledge, and practice models underpinning African social work education. The authors identify what is relevant and meaningful to inform, influence, and reconceptualise culturally relevant social work curriculum.
Covering Botswana, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, the Handbook comprises both empirical and conceptual chapters, multiple approaches, case studies, and key debates on social work education. It is structured in four parts:
• Approaches to Indigenising, Decolonising and Developing Culturally Relevant Social Work Education
• Social Work Education: Evolution across Contexts
• Embedding Field Practicum into Social Work Education
• Knowledge Exchange between the Global South and Global North.
The range of indigenous, local knowledge that the Handbook presents is crucial to social work evolving and facilitating for reciprocal learning and knowledge exchange between the Global South and Global North. Whilst the context of the Handbook is Africa, the topics covered are relevant to a global audience engaged in social justice work across social work, social welfare, social development, and sustainability.
Contents
Part 1: Approaches to Diversifying, Decolonising and Developing Culturally Relevant Social Work Education 1. Complexities Involved in Establishing a Culturally Relevant Social Work Curriculum in Nigeria 2. The Informality Paradigm in Social Work Practice in Africa: Philosophy, Continuity, and Prospects for Integration into Professional Practice 3. Exploring the Potential of an Ecosocial Approach for African Social Work Education 4. African Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Theories in Teaching Social Work 5. Translanguaging and Pedagogic Pathways to Culturally Relevant Social Work Education 6. Faith and Spiritualty in Social Work Education and Practice in Ethiopia 7. Faith and Spirituality in Social Work Education and Practice in Nigeria 8. Social Work and Pastural Counselling in South Africa: Inter-Sectoral Partnership Part 2: Social Work Education: Evolution across Contexts 9. Exploring the Challenges of Child Protection in Nigeria 10. Social Work Education: Opportunities and Challenges in Tanzania, East Africa 11. Advancing Social Work Education Using Online Learning in South Africa: Challenges and Prospects 12. Insurmountable Barriers to Social Work Education: Experiences of Online Learning from Rural South Africa 13. Social Worker Role-Taking during Communicable Disease Outbreaks in South Africa: The Need for Disaster Management Training 14. Counselling Competencies: Implications for Curriculum Development for Training of Social Work Practitioners 15. The Coming of Age of Social Work Education in Zimbabwe: Towards Reinforcing the Developmental Social Work Agenda 16. Social Work Education and Training in Francophone Africa: The Case of Cameroon 17. A Case Study of the Emerging Social Work Sector in Guinea, West Africa 18. Culture and Ethnicity in Medical Social Work: Lessons for Future Directions for Social Work Curriculum Transformation in Kenya Part 3: Embedding Field Practicum into Social Work Education 19. Social Work Field Practicum: Experiences, Challenges, and Perspectives from Malawi 20. Dearth of Standard Social Work Agencies for Field Practicum: Barrier to Social Work Pedagogy in Nigeria 21. Situational Analysis of Social Work Field Practice in Tanzania Mainland 22. The Importance and Challenges of Social Work Education Field Education: The University of Benin Experience 23. Field Practicum in Social Work Education: The Ethiopian Experience 24. Family Genogram as an Experiential Method to Enhance Training in Social Work Practice in Botswana 25. Rethinking Social Work Education in South Africa amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic: Suggestions for Innovative Fieldwork Practice 26. Being a Student Social Worker During Academic Disruptions in South Africa: What Do We Need to Prepare for Practice? Part 4: Knowledge Exchange between the Global South and Global North 27. Prioritising Indigenous Knowledge in Social Work Education through Experiential Learning: Narratives from Social Workers 28. An International University Partnership to Support the Social Service Workforce and Strengthen the Child Protection System in Ghana 29. Sources of Knowledge Transfer between the Global South and the Global North in Social Work Education 30. Social Work Education and Black African Diaspora: Explorations in the Republic of Ireland 31. Social Work Education and Practice Education, Decolonisation and Ubuntu: Making Connections in Malawi 32. Challenges and Prospects for Integrating Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (IPECP) into Social Work Education Across Cultures
