The challenges of using critical reflection to develop contextually appropriate social work

A few years back I was invited twice to teach an intensive course in critical reflection as part of a new Master’s program in social work in Ethiopia. From the students’ evaluations, it emerged that they learned about how important context and culture are in social work, as well as about diversity, from hearing about each other’s experiences (Askeland and Bradley, 2007; Payne and Askeland, 2008).