Historiography of South African social work: Challenging dominant discourses
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This paper examined the origins and development of social work in South Africa and found that socio-political and economic dynamics are formative of societal conditions and social work, which in turn has a role in shaping these dynamics.Abstract:
The task of examining the origins and development of social work is fraught with competing narratives. In South Africa individualist, liberal, colonial, masculine and “white” discourses prevail. The dialectical-historical perspective, rather than chronological “progress”, shows how socio-political and economic dynamics are formative of societal conditions and of social work, which in turn has a role in shaping these dynamics. The fiction of purely historical records of progress and freedom of choice is challenged, and hegemonic and counter-hegemonic discourses uncovered. Social workers are urged to be engaged with the full complexity of events emerging from the class and race-based antagonisms of South African society.read more
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Social work in Africa: Decolonizing methodologies and approaches:
TL;DR: The authors analyzes literature on decolonization, indigenous methodology, and social work in Africa, stressing that decolonisation of social work requires challenging dominant models of practice and research, while integrating traditional values and practices that have withstood centuries of oppression into culturally consonant forms of service and inquiry.
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Social Work in Times of Neoliberalism: A Postmodern Discourse, V. Sewpaul and D. Hölsher (eds), Pretoria, Van Schaik Publishers, 2004, pp. 115, ISBN 0 627 02606 0
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