Social Work in Africa
Social Work in Africa offers professors, students, and practitioners insight concerning social work in the African context. Its purpose is to encourage examination of the social work curriculum and to demonstrate practical ways to make it more culturally relevant. Drawing on her experience as a soci...
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University of Calgary Press
2022
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| Liŋkkat: | ONIX_20220718_9781552385968_45 |
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| description | Social Work in Africa offers professors, students, and practitioners insight concerning social work in the African context. Its purpose is to encourage examination of the social work curriculum and to demonstrate practical ways to make it more culturally relevant. Drawing on her experience as a social work instructor in Ghana with field research conducted for her doctoral thesis, author Linda Kreitzer addresses the history of social work in African countries, the hegemony of western knowledge in the field, and the need for culturally and regionally informed teaching resources and programs. Guided by a strong sense of her limitations and responsibilities as a privileged outsider and a belief that "only Ghanaians can critically look at and decide on a culturally relevant curriculum for themselves," Kreitzer utilizes Participatory Action Research methodology to successfully move the topic of culturally relevant practices from rhetoric to demonstration. Social Work in Africa is aimed at programs and practise in Ghana; at the same time, it is intended as a framework for the creation of culturally relevant social work curricula in other African countries and other contexts. |
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| language | eng |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-900392025-03-15T06:18:08Z Social Work in Africa Kreitzer, Linda Social work Social Work in Africa offers professors, students, and practitioners insight concerning social work in the African context. Its purpose is to encourage examination of the social work curriculum and to demonstrate practical ways to make it more culturally relevant. Drawing on her experience as a social work instructor in Ghana with field research conducted for her doctoral thesis, author Linda Kreitzer addresses the history of social work in African countries, the hegemony of western knowledge in the field, and the need for culturally and regionally informed teaching resources and programs. Guided by a strong sense of her limitations and responsibilities as a privileged outsider and a belief that "only Ghanaians can critically look at and decide on a culturally relevant curriculum for themselves," Kreitzer utilizes Participatory Action Research methodology to successfully move the topic of culturally relevant practices from rhetoric to demonstration. Social Work in Africa is aimed at programs and practise in Ghana; at the same time, it is intended as a framework for the creation of culturally relevant social work curricula in other African countries and other contexts. 2022-07-19T04:02:40Z 2022-07-19T04:02:40Z 2022-07-18T11:54:20Z 2012 book ONIX_20220718_9781552385968_45 OCN: 777304445 17031826 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57468 9781552385968 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/90039 eng Africa: Missing Voices open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57468/1/9781552385968.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57468/1/9781552385968.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57468/1/9781552385968.pdf University of Calgary Press 388fac32-9167-49a8-bb2b-bc9412a7d937 9781552385968 215 Calgary open access |
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