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Submission Number: 115
Submission ID: 149
Submission UUID: 49a77baf-9040-4082-83cf-c9666dbc94ea
Submission URI: /2023/abstracts
Created: Fri, 07/07/2023 - 10:43
Completed: Fri, 07/07/2023 - 11:30
Changed: Tue, 08/01/2023 - 20:59
Remote IP address: 41.193.97.224
Submitted by: Anonymous
Language: English
Is draft: No
Current page: Complete
Webform: Abstract
Presenters
Ms.
Kwakwa
Winnifred
University of Limpopo
Winnifred Motshidisi Kwakwa is a lecturer at UL in the Department of Social Work since 2018 and is a Ph.D. candidate. Her research interests are Gender issues, Public health, Migration, and Social work policy. She has participated in the collaborated migration project supported by NIHSS (2021-2022). She was currently part of the Limpopo Provincial Covid-19 project which ended in June 2023. The outcome of these projects is ten publications in both local and international accredited journals.
Yes
Ms.
Mafa
Prudence
University of Limpopo
Prudence Mafa is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Social Work at the University of Limpopo, South Africa. She holds a Master of Social Work degree obtained from the same university. Ms Mafa has varied research interests which include family social work, substance abuse, public health, migration. Over a period of five years, she has been involved in research projects which were addressing issues related to these interests. These various projects have yielded more than twenty journal articles which she co-authored with her research team members. Prudence is part of the teaching staff in the Department of Social Work at the University of Limpopo.
No
Abstract
Political activism and social work practice in South Africa: A reality or an anomaly?
THEME 4: Quality management and enhancement of social services
SUB 4.4 Advancing Decolonial and Afrocentric education, research, and practice
Oral Presentation
The study sought to explore factors that inhibit political activism among social workers in South Africa. Grounded Theory, Multiple case studies and Exploratory design assisted in achieving the goals of the article. Data was collected using semi-structured interviews and open ended questionnaires with social work practitioners in South Africa in their respective private spaces. Data was analysed thematically using content thematic analysis. The general consensus was that the colonial social work curriculum failed to prepare students for political activism and ignored the critical lens towards contemporary systemic and neo-liberal realities which were said to be exacerbating disunity and fragmentation within the profession. The paper is envisaged to set a way forward for further debate on the radical field of social work as a vehicle for the alteration of the social work education in South Africa.
Reviewer ONE Feedback
Dr
Ntandoyenkosi
Maphosa
Yes
Empirical Research
Accepted
Reviewer TWO Feedback
Prof
Veonna
Goliath
Yes
Empirical Research
Accepted
