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.
| ISBN: | 9781032322964 |
| Publication date: | 26th December 2025 |
| Author: | Susan Levy, Uzoma Odera Okoye, Pius T Tanga, Richard David Ingram |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 402 pages |
| Series: | Routledge International Handbooks |
| Genres: |
Social welfare and social services Decolonisation of knowledge / Decoloniality Teaching of a specific subject |
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.
Routledge Handbook of African Social Work Education features in the following genres: Social work, Regional / International studies, Higher education, tertiary education, Teaching skills and techniques, Religion and beliefs
Routledge Handbook of African Social Work Education is available in Paperback, Hardback
Routledge Handbook of African Social Work Education was written by Susan Levy, Uzoma Odera Okoye, Pius T Tanga, Richard David Ingram and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Routledge Handbook of African Social Work Education has 402 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge International Handbooks series
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