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The Role of Social Work Education in Fostering Empowerment of People of African Descent: The Significance of the History of Slavery and Colonialism 社会工作教育在促进非洲人后裔赋权方面的作用:奴隶制和殖民主义历史的意义

Global Social Work - Cutting Edge Issues and Critical Reflections Pub Date : 2020-05-21 DOI: 10.5772/INTECHOPEN.92179

Eric Kyere, Lalit Khandare

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Using Indigenous Approaches as a Bridge between Policies, Interventions, and the Grassroots 使用本土方法作为政策、干预和基层之间的桥梁

Global Social Work - Cutting Edge Issues and Critical Reflections Pub Date : 2020-03-13 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.90796

A. Ibrahima

{"title":"Using Indigenous Approaches as a Bridge between Policies, Interventions, and the Grassroots","authors":"A. Ibrahima","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.90796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.90796","url":null,"abstract":"Indigenous approaches are crucial for indigenous people across the world including Africans, in assessing the impact of imperialism and its manifestations in colonialism, liberalism, globalization, and Western research. Such approaches acknowledge the fundamental importance of local culture, recognizing that geo-graphical, empirically based knowledge provides culturally appropriate solutions to problems. Indigenous approaches serve as a bridge between policies, interventions, and the grassroots. Social work, as a practice-based profession and an academic discipline, should acknowledge and include indigenous knowledge and methodologies in its curriculum. It is important to empower and provide space and a voice for the grassroots to articulate problems and participate in solving them by sharing their own wisdom and experiences. It is shortsighted and unworkable to rely upon prescribed Western policies and curriculums with the assumption that they will seamlessly transfer to other, fundamentally different, people and cultures. Failing to discard such an “apples to apples approach” will only result in a prolonged failure to adequately address the socioeconomic problems in Sub-Saharan Africa and will only perpetuate the problems associated with imperialism and [neo]colonialism. This chapter provides conceptual definitions to constructs such as decolonization and indigenous knowledge and demonstrates the importance of decolonization and indigenous approaches in social work scholarship and practice as it relates to Africa.","PeriodicalId":379705,"journal":{"name":"Global Social Work - Cutting Edge Issues and Critical Reflections","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125029108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Appealability of the Social Work Profession in the United States: Possible Explanations 美国社会工作专业的吸引力:可能的解释

Global Social Work - Cutting Edge Issues and Critical Reflections Pub Date : 2020-03-09 DOI: 10.5772/INTECHOPEN.91671

R. Joseph, Herbert Shon

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Social Work with Single and Non-Resident Fathers: How Inclusive Is Our Practice and Where Do We Go from Here? 单亲和非居民父亲的社会工作:我们的实践有多包容，我们该怎么做?

Global Social Work - Cutting Edge Issues and Critical Reflections Pub Date : 2020-02-26 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.90641

Simon Haworth, L. Sobo-Allen

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Empowerment Potential of Social Work Techniques among Practitioners in Israel and the USA 社会工作技术在以色列和美国从业人员中的赋权潜力

Global Social Work - Cutting Edge Issues and Critical Reflections Pub Date : 2020-02-14 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.90654

Khawla Zoabi, I. Gal

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Teaching Innovations in Social Work Education 社会工作教育的教学创新

Global Social Work - Cutting Edge Issues and Critical Reflections Pub Date : 2020-01-07 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.90601

Maria Wolmesjö

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Thematic Analysis in Social Work: A Case Study 社会工作中的主题分析:个案研究

Global Social Work - Cutting Edge Issues and Critical Reflections Pub Date : 2019-12-09 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.89464

Oscar Labra, C. Castro, R. Wright, I. Chamblas

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It is Important to Build on Their Knowledge Teachers’ Approaches to Newly Arrived Immigrant Pupils’ 教师对新移民学生的教育方法应立足知识基础

Global Social Work - Cutting Edge Issues and Critical Reflections Pub Date : 2019-11-19 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.89510

Ann-Christin Torpsten

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An Analysis of Salient Aspects of the Research Proposals of Fourth Year Student Social Workers: A Case Study of Class of 2019, University of Limpopo 四年级学生社工研究建议的重点分析——以林波波大学2019级学生为例

Global Social Work - Cutting Edge Issues and Critical Reflections Pub Date : 2019-11-05 DOI: 10.5772/INTECHOPEN.89503

Pontsho James. Mmadi, S. Sithole

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Irish Field Education/Social Work Placement: The Making of Multi-Touch eBooks as a ‘Wrap Around’ Resource 爱尔兰实地教育/社会工作安置:多触控电子书作为“围绕”资源的制作

Global Social Work - Cutting Edge Issues and Critical Reflections Pub Date : 2019-10-04 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.89391

Marguerita McGovern

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