The expansion of developmental social work in Southern and East Africa: Opportunities and challenges for social work field programmes | Zendy

Mel Gray | Zendy; Kylie Agllias | Zendy; Rodreck Mupedziswa | Zendy; Jacob Mugumbate | Zendy

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The expansion of developmental social work in Southern and East Africa: Opportunities and challenges for social work field programmes

Author(s) -

Mel Gray,

Kylie Agllias,

Rodreck Mupedziswa,

Jacob Mugumbate

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

international social work

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.463

H-Index - 43

eISSN - 1461-7234

pISSN - 0020-8728

DOI - 10.1177/0020872817695399

Subject(s) - enthusiasm , social work , work (physics) , qualitative research , sociology , social change , economic growth , social science , gender studies , psychology , social psychology , mechanical engineering , engineering , economics

This article reports on a study that examined how fieldwork education in Southern and East Africa was responding to the developmental social work agenda. The study used semi-structured qualitative interviews with key informants from 15 social work programmes in 11 different Southern and East African countries. It investigated whether the social work fieldwork placements on offer provided practical experience of a developmental approach to social work practice. The study showed the creativity and enthusiasm with which social work educators were embracing the goals of developmental social work education, despite the pitfalls and limitations of doing this within fieldwork resource constraints

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