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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
Is draft: No
Current page: Complete
Webform: Abstract
Presenters
Dr.
Sithole
Mbongeni
UKZN
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.
Yes
Ms.
Zondi
Nokukhanya
UKZN
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.
Yes
Ms
Nqayi
Zamansele
UKZN
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.
Abstract
Ma’at Institute’s role in adverse situations: Collective autoethnographic reflections of facilitators rendering African-centred psychosocial interventions
THEME 1: Promoting stakeholder partnerships that protect, support and enhance resilience during adverse events and trauma
SUB 1.1The role of psychosocial services during adverse events and resultant trauma from a Human rights perspective
Oral Presentation
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.
Reviewer ONE Feedback
Dr
Issie
Jacobs
Yes
Empirical Research
Accepted
Reviewer TWO Feedback
Dr
Jimmy
Budeli
Yes
Empirical Research
Accepted
