1. The expansion of developmental social work in Southern and East Africa: Opportunities and challenges for social work field programmes.
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Gray, Mel, Agllias, Kylie, Mupedziswa, Rodreck, and Mugumbate, Jacob
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ATTITUDE (Psychology) , *CHANGE , *COLLEGE teachers , *PHILOSOPHY of education , *EXPERIENCE , *EXPERIENTIAL learning , *FIELDWORK (Educational method) , *INTERNATIONAL relations , *INTERNSHIP programs , *INTERVIEWING , *RESEARCH methodology , *RESEARCH funding , *SCHOOL environment , *SOCIAL services , *SOCIAL work education , *STUDENTS , *PROFESSIONAL practice , *JUDGMENT sampling , *HUMAN services programs - Abstract
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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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