ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|94 pages
Approaches to Diversifying, Decolonising, and Developing Culturally Relevant Social Work Education
chapter 2|11 pages
The Informality Paradigm in Social Work Practice in Africa
part 2|124 pages
Social Work Education
chapter 11|11 pages
Advancing Social Work Education Using Online Learning in South Africa
chapter 12|11 pages
Insurmountable Barriers to Social Work Education
chapter 13|13 pages
Social Worker Role-Taking during Communicable Disease Outbreaks in South Africa
chapter 14|13 pages
Cyber Counselling Competencies
chapter 15|11 pages
The Coming of Age of Social Work Education in Zimbabwe
chapter 18|12 pages
Culture and Ethnicity in Medical Social Work
part 3|94 pages
Embedding Field Practicum into Social Work Education
chapter 19|11 pages
Social Work Field Practicum
chapter 20|12 pages
Dearth of Standard Social Work Agencies for Field Practicum
chapter 22|10 pages
The Importance and Challenges of Social Work Field Education
chapter 25|11 pages
Rethinking Social Work Education in South Africa amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
chapter 26|12 pages
Being a Student Social Worker during Academic Disruptions in South Africa
part 4|72 pages
Knowledge Exchange between the Global South and the Global North