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Submission Number: 25
Submission ID: 25
Submission UUID: 3fe8a27e-c33e-4de1-bb21-e8dc7390e9cd
Submission URI: /2023/abstracts
Created: Thu, 05/18/2023 - 10:01
Completed: Thu, 05/18/2023 - 10:52
Changed: Tue, 06/06/2023 - 16:31
Remote IP address: 41.150.209.176
Submitted by: Anonymous
Language: English
Is draft: No
Current page: Complete
Webform: Abstract
Presenters
Dr.
LEBURU
GOITSEONE
UniSA: University of South Australia
Dr Goitseone Leburu is currently a senior lecturer at the Department of Social Work, UNISA. She is responsible for carrying out teaching and learning and postgraduate supervision and research activities in the Department of Social Work. She is also the program coordinator of the Higher Certificate in Social Auxiliary Work. Prior to joining academia, she served as a social worker at the Department of Social Development, Ditsobotla Service point in the North-West Province where she practiced as a social worker. She obtained both the undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications from the North-West University. Dr Leburu has research interest gender issues, gender-based violence, violence against women and children, empowerment, and women empowerment. She has published numerous articles from these fields.
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Abstract
Wrestling with the Gender-based violence pandemic: An Afrocentric social work perspective
THEME 4: Quality management and enhancement of social services
SUB 4.4 Advancing Decolonial and Afrocentric education, research, and practice
Oral Presentation
Gender-based violence (GBV) scourge has been placed in the national agenda by the South African (SA) government. While SA continues to wrestle with GBV, there has deliberations among social work scholars, academics, and practitioners to Africanise social work education and practice. Despite this, there is paucity of research that investigates GBV from a decolonised and Afrocentric perspective. Moreover, the education and practice are still relying heavily on the Eurocentric approaches, interventions and methods which have been criticised by many scholars. Informed by the Afrocentric perspective, this paper seeks to reposition social work in the Pan African Agenda to rethink alternative strategies to curb GBV by tapping into the indigenous knowledge and resources. This paper calls for a need to return to the drawing board and determine how the current social work education and practice can be blended with a traditional African knowledge base, approaches, and models to curb GBV.
Reviewer ONE Feedback
Prof
Thulane
Gxubane
Somewhat
Practice
Accepted
Reviewer TWO Feedback
Prof
Mariette
van der Merwe
Somewhat
Practice
Accepted
