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Decolonising and Reimagining Social Work in Africa

Author : Sharlotte Tusasiirwe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032525532
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Decolonising and Reimagining Social Work in Africa written by Sharlotte Tusasiirwe and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores contemporary debates on decolonisation and indigenisation of social work in Africa and provides readers with alternative models, values, and epistemologies for reimagining social work practice and education that can be applicable to a wide range of countries struggling with similar concerns. It examines how indigenisation without decolonisation is just tokenistic since it is concerned with adapting, modifying Western models to fit local contexts or generating local models to integrate into the already predominantly contextually irrelevant and culturally inappropriate mainstream Western social work. By exploring decolonisation, which calls for dismantling colonialism and colonial thinking to create central space for indigenous social work as mainstream social work, especially in Africa, it goes beyond tokenistic decolonisation to articulate some of the indigenous social work practice and social policy models, values, ethics, and oral epistemologies that should take centre stage as locally relevant and culturally appropriate social work in African countries. It also addresses the question of decolonising research methodologies, highlighting some of the methods embedded in African indigenous perspectives for adoption when researching African social work. It will be of interest to all social work academics, students and practitioners and others interested in gaining insights into how colonisation persists in social work and why it is necessary to find ways to disrupt it"--

Decolonising and Reimagining Social Work in Africa

Author : Sharlotte Tusasiirwe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000907600
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Decolonising and Reimagining Social Work in Africa written by Sharlotte Tusasiirwe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores contemporary debates on decolonisation and indigenisation of social work in Africa and provides readers with alternative models, values, and epistemologies for reimagining social work practice and education that can be applicable to a wide range of countries struggling with similar concerns. It examines how indigenisation without decolonisation is just tokenistic since it is concerned with adapting, modifying Western models to fit local contexts or generating local models to integrate into the already predominantly contextually irrelevant and culturally inappropriate mainstream Western social work in Africa. By exploring decolonisation, which calls for dismantling colonialism and colonial thinking to create central space for indigenous social work as mainstream social work, especially in Africa, it goes beyond tokenistic decolonisation to articulate some of the indigenous social work practice and social policy models, values, ethics, and oral epistemologies that should take centre stage as locally relevant and culturally appropriate social work in Africa. It also addresses the question of decolonising research methodologies, highlighting some of the methods embedded in African indigenous perspectives for adoption when researching African social work. The book has been written with both the coloniser/colonised in mind and it will be of interest to all social work academics, students and practitioners, and others interested in gaining insights into how colonisation persists in social work and why it is necessary to find ways to disrupt it.

Re-imagining Social Work

Author : Jim Ife
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108436889
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Re-imagining Social Work written by Jim Ife and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-imagining Social Work provides a unique perspective on how social work can evolve for the future.

Decolonizing Pathways towards Integrative Healing in Social Work

Author : Kris Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351846272
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Book Synopsis Decolonizing Pathways towards Integrative Healing in Social Work by : Kris Clarke

Download or read book Decolonizing Pathways towards Integrative Healing in Social Work written by Kris Clarke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a new and innovative angle on social work, this book seeks to remedy the lack of holistic perspectives currently used in Western social work practice by exploring Indigenous and other culturally diverse understandings and experiences of healing. This book examines six core areas of healing through a holistic lens that is grounded in a decolonizing perspective. Situating integrative healing within social work education and theory, the book takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from social memory and historical trauma, contemplative traditions, storytelling, healing literatures, integrative health, and the traditional environmental knowledge of Indigenous Peoples. In exploring issues of water, creative expression, movement, contemplation, animals, and the natural world in relation to social work practice, the book will appeal to all scholars, practitioners, and community members interested in decolonization and Indigenous studies.

Decolonising Social Work in Finland

Author : Kris Clarke
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447371453
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Decolonising Social Work in Finland written by Kris Clarke and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction and Chapter 10 available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines the contemporary social care realities and practices of Finland, a small nation with a history enmeshed in social relations as both coloniser and colonised. Decolonising Social Work in Finland: · Interrogates coloniality, racialisation and diversity in the context of Finnish social work and social care. · Brings together racialised and mainstream White Finnish researchers, activists and community members to challenge relations of epistemic violence on racialised populations in Finland. · Critically unpacks colonial views of care and wellbeing. It will be essential reading for international scholars and students in the fields of Social Work, Sociology, Indigenous Studies, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Education.

Routledge Handbook of African Social Work Education

Author : Susan Levy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040029310
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of African Social Work Education written by Susan Levy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Theories for Decolonial Social Work Practice in South Africa

Author : Shernaaz Carelse
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780190721350
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Theories for Decolonial Social Work Practice in South Africa written by Shernaaz Carelse and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theories for Decolonial Social Work Practice in South Africa is a local book critically presenting social work theories that are suitable for decolonial and developmental generalist practice in the Global South. The choice of theories included in this book is informed by the lived experiences of South Africans in a multicultural, post-colonial, post-apartheid society. The book sees the goal of social work as effecting transformation and liberation, through the implementation of the developmental approach, and by drawing on decolonial and African concepts. It supports social workers in working toward this goal by stimulating critical reflection and disrupting taken-for-granted beliefs and practices. It guides readers to work with client groups across the micro-mezzo-macro continuum in such a way that they are empowered to develop agency, thereby affirming the basic values of social justice and human dignity.

Ubuntu Philosophy and Decolonising Social Work Fields of Practice in Africa

Author : Janestic Mwende Twikirize
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000965597
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Ubuntu Philosophy and Decolonising Social Work Fields of Practice in Africa by : Janestic Mwende Twikirize

Download or read book Ubuntu Philosophy and Decolonising Social Work Fields of Practice in Africa written by Janestic Mwende Twikirize and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses a recurrent gap in social work literature by examining Ubuntu as an Indigenous African philosophy that informs social work beyond the largely residual and individualistic conceptualisation of social work that currently prevails in many contexts. Owing to the lack of social work theories, models and generally, literature that is locally and contextually relevant, most social work lecturers based in African context, struggle to access learning materials and texts that centre local indigenous voices and worldviews. It is within this context that the ubuntu philosophy has gained traction. There is increasing consensus that Ubuntu as an African philosophy and way of life, has the potential to be used as a decolonising framework for social work education and practice. Theorising from Ubuntu can influence and be the foundation for African social work theory and knowledge, social work values and ethics, social work research and policy, and Ubuntu informing different fields of social work practice like social work with older people, children and young people, ubuntu and poverty alleviation, ubuntu and the environment, among others. Drawing together social workers engaged in education, research, policy, practice, to theorise Ubuntu and its tenets, philosophies, and values, this book shows how it can be a foundation for a decolonised, more relevant social work education and practice in African contexts.

Indigenous Social Work Around the World

Author : Mel Gray
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754648383
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Social Work Around the World written by Mel Gray and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together prominent international scholars involved in both Western and indigenous social work across the globe - including James Midgley, Linda Briskman, Alean Al-Krenawi and John R. Graham - to discuss some of the most significant global trends and issues relating to indigenous and cross-cultural social work.

Decolonising Social Work in Finland

Author : Kris Clarke
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447371429
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Decolonising Social Work in Finland written by Kris Clarke and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction and Chapter 10 available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines the contemporary social care realities and practices of Finland, a small nation with a history enmeshed in social relations as both coloniser and colonised. Decolonising Social Work in Finland: · Interrogates coloniality, racialisation and diversity in the context of Finnish social work and social care. · Brings together racialised and mainstream White Finnish researchers, activists and community members to challenge relations of epistemic violence on racialised populations in Finland. · Critically unpacks colonial views of care and wellbeing. It will be essential reading for international scholars and students in the fields of Social Work, Sociology, Indigenous Studies, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Education.

Decolonizing Social Work

Author : John Coates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138247390
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Decolonizing Social Work written by John Coates and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Indigenous and non-Indigenous social work scholars examine local cultures, beliefs, values, and practices as central to decolonization. Supported by a growing interest in spirituality and ecological awareness in international social work, they interrogate trends, issues, and debates in Indigenous social work theory, practice methods, and education models including a section on Indigenous research approaches.

Decolonized Approaches to Human Rights and Social Work

Author : Melinda Madew
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031330307
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Book Synopsis Decolonized Approaches to Human Rights and Social Work by : Melinda Madew

Download or read book Decolonized Approaches to Human Rights and Social Work written by Melinda Madew and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite committed effort to integrate postcolonial theory and decolonizing practices in human rights education in social work, there is scant literature offering a more balanced global perspective. This book addresses that need. Included here are discursive voices contributed by social work colleagues whose work is impacted by postcolonial realities. The task of decolonizing social work as a human rights profession calls for the inclusion of contesting perspectives from social work activists, human rights advocates and educators whose critical standpoints are drawn from the historical context of Global North-South relations. This book is essential given the many manifestations of global injustice, wars and climate catastrophes. The critical involvement of social workers in decolonized human rights advocacy is at no period in history, more urgent than now. The book: Engages readers in reflective discourse over the contentious manner human rights principles are referenced by social work practitioners within the context of contemporary North-South geopolitics Explores dilemmas, conflicts, challenges and limitations experienced by social workers worldwide while upholding human rights principles Uses critical case studies that expose how the vestiges of colonialism continue to impact communities Identifies areas of human rights advocacy where social work succeeds, and where it is confronted by limiting challenges Emphasizes the importance of human rights education and practice in the context of global inequalities Decolonized Approaches to Human Rights and Social Work provides models of good practice the world over in human rights advocacy. It is timely and essential reading for faculty who teach courses in social work, social development, community organization, human rights and social justice, as well as for students in social work, law, sociology, global studies and human rights. The book should draw readers who work in non-governmental organizations, international development agencies, advocacy groups, and community-based and grassroots organizations. International research centers, law clinics and organizations serving migrants and refugees would find it a useful resource.

Social Welfare and Social Work in Southern Africa

Author : Ndangwa Noyoo
Publisher : African Sun Media
ISBN 13 : 1928480764
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Social Welfare and Social Work in Southern Africa written by Ndangwa Noyoo and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written by Southern African social welfare, social work, social development, social security and social policy academics, practitioners and advocates who have varying degrees of experience. The authors who contributed chapters to this book added their perspectives to ongoing debates about academic areas in the region. Thus, the book’s primary objective is to discuss the development of social welfare and social work in Southern Africa. In doing so, it endeavours to contribute to the existing body of knowledge on social welfare and social work in the region. The chapters are examined through different theoretical lenses and historical perspectives. In this book, African scholars, academics, and practitioners provide a deep and critical reflection of social welfare, social work, and related disciplines during the colonial and post-colonial era, a period characterised by a deliberate move by Africa’s political administrations to focus on nation-building and to attempt to make Africa a global player. Despite being endowed with rich natural resources like minerals; agriculture; and solid family and extended family life, the continent is weak globally. Furthermore, the book focuses on the pre-colonial period – a golden thread running through the chapters. The book discusses the colonial era when Western countries’ capture and oppression of Africa characterised the continent’s history. This book is an appropriate publication at this point in our history; a resource that can be used to generate appropriate narratives and questions within the social welfare and social development sector, particularly on delivery, education and training.

Disrupting Whiteness in Social Work

Author : Sonia M. Tascón
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000766470
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Disrupting Whiteness in Social Work written by Sonia M. Tascón and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focussing on the epistemic – the way in which knowledge is understood, constructed, transmitted and used – this book shows the way social work knowledge has been constructed from within a white western paradigm, and the need for a critique of whiteness within social work at this epistemic level. Social work, emerging from the western Enlightenment world, has privileged white western knowledge in ways that have been, until recently, largely unexamined within its professional discourse. This imposition of white western ways of knowing has led to a corresponding marginalisation of other forms of knowledge. Drawing on views from social workers from Asia, the Pacific region, Africa, Australia and Latin America, this book also includes a glossary of over 40 commonly used social work terms, which are listed with their epistemological assumptions identified. Opening up a debate about the received wisdom of much social work language as well as challenging the epistemological assumptions behind conventional social work practice, this book will be of interest to all scholars and students of social work as well as practitioners seeking to develop genuinely decolonised forms of practice.

Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts

Author : Mpho Ngoepe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003851924
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts by : Mpho Ngoepe

Download or read book Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts written by Mpho Ngoepe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-06 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts revisits the definition of a record and extends it to include memory, murals, rock art paintings and other objects. Drawing on five years of research and examples from Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa, the authors analyse archives in the African context. Considering issues such as authentication, ownership and copyright, the book considers how murals and their like can be used as extended or counter archives. Arguing that extended archives can reach people in a way that traditional archives cannot and that such archives can be used to bridge the gaps identified within archival repositories, the authors also examine how such archives are managed and authenticated using traditional archival principles. Presenting case studies from organisations such as Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action Archives (GALA) and heritage projects such as the Makgabeng Open Cultural Museum, the authors also analyse Indigenous family praises and songs and explore how such records are preserved and transmitted to the next generation. Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts demonstrates how the voices of the marginalised can be incorporated into archives. Making an important contribution to the effort to decolonise African archives, the book will be essential reading for academics and students working in archival studies, library and information science, Indigenous studies, African studies, cultural heritage, history and anthropology.

Critical Social Work Studies in South Africa

Author : Annaline Keet
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1998959031
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book Critical Social Work Studies in South Africa written by Annaline Keet and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Social Work Studies in South Africa: Prospects and Challenges is a convergence of 18 critical Black African minds from various South African universities, who challenge the hegemonic status quo in society. In this collection of conceptual and empirical papers, each author tells a compelling story with common themes that are firmly rooted in advancing decolonial knowledge. This book covers pertinent issues in social work practice and education, ranging from rethinking parenting roles, utopian notions of family, mediation practice in relation to unmarried fathers to race and landlessness. The book contains practical suggestions in respect of decolonising the self as well as social work curricula in higher education. In addition Critical Social Work Studies in South Africa: Prospects and Challenges delves into trusting relationships as cornerstones to effective supervision, centring African spirituality in social work, economic emancipation of Black women, cultural trauma as well as drug abuse prevention. Based on the range of themes, this book would benefit social work practitioners, students, academics, social activists and anyone who is curious to understand how decoloniality may be operationalised in social work.

Re-imagining Social Work

Author : Jim Ife
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108530486
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Re-imagining Social Work written by Jim Ife and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social workers are increasingly faced with contemporary global challenges such as inequality, climate change and displacement of people. As a field committed to supporting the world's most vulnerable populations and communities, social work must adapt to meet the needs of this changing global landscape. Re-imagining Social Work broadens the imaginative horizons for social workers and acquaints readers with their potential to creatively contribute to global change. Written in an accessible style, this book motivates readers to think outside the box when it comes to linking theory to their social work practice, in order to construct innovative solutions to prominent social problems. Re-imagining Social Work provides a unique perspective on how social work can evolve for the future. Through theory and critical perspective, this book provides the skills required to be an innovative creative social worker.