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Submission Number: 107
Submission ID: 141
Submission UUID: 598d5ce5-8343-49e8-ae6c-8e3a7be93bfa
Submission URI: /2023/abstracts

Created: Thu, 07/06/2023 - 17:59
Completed: Thu, 07/06/2023 - 18:24
Changed: Mon, 07/24/2023 - 10:54

Remote IP address: 105.245.164.165
Submitted by: Anonymous
Language: English

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Title Dr.
Lastname Sithole
Firstname Mbongeni
eMail [email protected]
Mobile 0711623078
Institution UKZN
Biosketch Dr Sithole is serving as a social work educator in the School of Applied Human Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is a qualified social worker with eleven years of academic experience. He has field-practice expertise in the public service, having practised in the areas of Social Development, Corrections and Skills Development. His interest is mainly in the area of inclusive education, corrections, supervision, trauma debriefing and Afrocentricity as an alternative knowledge system. He has a working knowledge of legislative prescripts and policy frameworks pertaining to Higher Education, Labour Relations and the Criminal Justice System.
Is there a Second Presenter? Yes
Title Ms.
Lastname Zondi
Firstname Nokukhanya
eMail [email protected]
Mobile 0797206716
Institution UKZN
Biosketch Ms Zondi is a registered PhD student in the Discipline of Social Work, UKZN. Ms Zondi’s primary research interest is in Afrocentric Social Work. Her Master’s thesis was on mediation and child participation in indigenous African families. Her PhD is on rituals and rites of passage for children from Indigenous African communities. Her thesis is conceptualised and written in isiZulu. Ms Zondi is based in the MA’AT Institute as a mentor and the isiZulu language expert with more than three years of experience. Her research interest is in African-centred mediation, African culture and value systems.
Is there a Third Presenter? Yes
Title Ms
Lastname Nqayi
Firstname Zamansele
eMail [email protected]
Mobile 0797206716
Institution UKZN
Biosketch Zamansele Nqayi is a PhD student in the Discipline of Developmental Studies at UKZN. Her research interest is in African-centred knowledge systems. Her Masters research was on the Rites of passage and virginity testing in the 21 century. Her PhD study is in Food Security through indigenous African knowledge systems. She is a social worker with over five years of experience. Her experience has been primarily in community development, having worked in private practice, the Department of Social Development, Age in Action and the Rural Education Access Programme. She is currently working as a Project Coordinator at the Ma'at Institute.
Title of Presentatation Ma’at Institute’s role in adverse situations: Collective autoethnographic reflections of facilitators rendering African-centred psychosocial interventions
Theme Selection THEME 1: Promoting stakeholder partnerships that protect, support and enhance resilience during adverse events and trauma
Subtheme ONE Selection SUB 1.1The role of psychosocial services during adverse events and resultant trauma from a Human rights perspective
Select your Presentation Type Oral Presentation
Abstract This paper synthesises findings drawn from the Ma’at Institute facilitators’ reflective experiences of rendering African-centred psychosocial interventions with clients in distress. Ma’at Institute is a multidisciplinary centre established through partnership between the UKZN and the HWSETA. This paper explores how the facilitators describe their developmental process and what it means to be a Ma’at Institute facilitator in an African-centred context. This article is based on the reflection stories and experiences of five facilitators. It is framed within the autoethnographic framework influenced by the reflective practice approach. Four themes that emerged are self-critical approach, maximised orientation to African-based skills, personal-cultural connection and maintaining of personal-professional balance. The paper concludes with the view that the Ma’at Institute provides an intermediate platform for practitioners transitioning from a theory-based learning context to an African-centred practice context. The paper recommends the need for the expansion of centres of this nature to bridge theory and practice effectively.
Title Dr
Firstname Issie
Lastname Jacobs
Does the Abstract fit the selected Theme? Yes
What Area does this Abstract Focus on? Empirical Research
Status Accepted
Title Dr
Firstname Jimmy
Lastname Budeli
Does the Abstract fit the selected Theme? Yes
What Area does this Abstract Focus on? Empirical Research
Status Accepted
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