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Submission Number: 262
Submission ID: 1479
Submission UUID: 25625034-a5c7-4d44-aeac-3bc8aa24f79e
Submission URI: /2025/abstracts
Created: Mon, 07/14/2025 - 14:12
Completed: Mon, 07/14/2025 - 14:18
Changed: Wed, 07/23/2025 - 10:33
Remote IP address: 196.254.105.125
Submitted by: Anonymous
Language: English
Is draft: No
Current page: Complete
Webform: Abstract
| Title | Prof. |
|---|---|
| Lastname | Ncube |
| Firstname | Mpumelelo |
| ncubeme@ufs.ac.za | |
| Mobile | 0734267844 |
| Institution | University of the free state |
| Biosketch | Mpumelelo E. Ncube, PhD, is Associate Professor and Head of Social Work at the University of the Free State. He chairs the Faculty of Humanities Scientific Committee and the 2025 ASASWEI National Conference. His academic interests include social work supervision, developmental social welfare, and decoloniality. Ncube also serves as Vice President of the Association of South African Social Work Education Institutions and supervises postgraduate research. His work in developmental social welfare promotes social and economic justice through inclusive, participatory, and rights-based approaches, crucial for addressing poverty, inequality, and social exclusion in marginalised communities. |
| Is there a Second Presenter? | No |
| Title of Presentatation | Integrating Environmental Justice, Peacebuilding, and Sustainable Development into Social Work Education in Southern Africa |
| Theme Selection | THEME 3: Policy and Advocacy for Peace building, Environmental and Social Justice |
| Subtheme THREE Selection | SUB 3.1 Influencing policies that promote environmental sustainability and social equity. |
| Select your Presentation Type | Oral Presentation |
| Abstract | This desktop-based theoretical review explores how social work education in Africa can more effectively integrate the interconnected themes of environmental justice, peacebuilding, and sustainable development. Anchored in the social development approach, which promotes inclusive, participatory, and rights-based development, the study critically examines current pedagogical frameworks and curricular content within social work programmes on the continent. The review draws on scholarly literature, regional education policies, and global development agendas to assess the extent to which social work teaching prepares graduates to engage with the complex, overlapping challenges of ecological degradation, social inequality, and structural violence. Findings indicate that while social development principles are frequently cited in policy and academic discourse, their operationalisation within teaching and practice remains inconsistent. The study highlights a gap in the deliberate integration of environmental and peacebuilding dimensions into social work curricula, despite their relevance to sustainable development in the Southern African context. It concludes by advocating for a transformative shift in social work education, one that centres the nexus of justice, peace, and sustainability as foundational to both the theory and practice of social development. |
| Title | Dr |
| Firstname | Zurina |
| Lastname | Abdulla |
| Does the Abstract fit the selected Theme? | Yes |
| What Area does this Abstract Focus on? | Education |
| Status | Accepted |
| Title | Dr |
| Firstname | Ilze |
| Lastname | Slabbert |
| Does the Abstract fit the selected Theme? | Yes |
| What Area does this Abstract Focus on? | Education |
| Status | Accepted |