ABSTRACT
Social work has tended to be a locality specific discipline that has focused on geographically bounded legislation, political configurations, economic frameworks, culture and norms (Dominelli, 2000). Its local specificity has given social work a rich diversity of forms throughout the world (Garber, 20(0). At the same time, social work educators and practitioners have felt a need to internationalise their local curricula and practices, desiring to learn from other people's experiences and the knowledge acquired in other places. Hence, a number of social work educators and practitioners set about establishing organisations that would facilitate their engagement with the international domain (Kendall, 1998).
