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Submission Number: 35
Submission ID: 781
Submission UUID: 00197daa-5e77-4a4a-ade9-d5b7f2fad1d9
Submission URI: /2025/abstracts
Created: Fri, 04/11/2025 - 11:39
Completed: Fri, 04/11/2025 - 11:49
Changed: Sun, 04/27/2025 - 08:40
Remote IP address: 196.21.175.1
Submitted by: Anonymous
Language: English
Is draft: No
Current page: Complete
Webform: Abstract
| Title | Dr. |
|---|---|
| Lastname | Gumbi |
| Firstname | Sandile ntethelelo |
| gumbisn4@gmail.com | |
| Mobile | 0828428114 |
| Institution | University of mpumalanga |
| Biosketch | Dr. Sandile Ntethelelo Gumbi is a Social Work Lecturer at the University of Mpumalanga (UMP). He holds a PhD in Social Work from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and is a recipient of the NRF Research Excellence Award. His research interests include social development, Afrocentric social work, and supervision. Dr. Gumbi’s interdisciplinary work explores the intersections of social work, music, and cultural identity, with a focus on isiZulu heritage. His scholarship contributes to advancing culturally responsive social work practices while highlighting the role of music in shaping self-identity and community well-being. |
| Is there a Second Presenter? | No |
| Title of Presentatation | SOCIAL WORK AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT: AN AFROCENTRIC PERSPECTIVE OF THE RELEVANCE OF ECOLOGICAL SOCIAL WORK IN SOUTHERN AFRICA |
| Theme Selection | THEME 1: Green Social Work and Climate Resilience: Supporting Vulnerable Communities in the Face of Environmental Crises |
| Subtheme ONE Selection | SUB 1.6 The role of indigenous knowledge in environmental conservation. |
| Select your Presentation Type | Oral Presentation |
| Abstract | This article employs qualitative document analysis to investigate the relevance of ecological social work through a purposeful selection of policies, frameworks, reports, and literature informing social work curricula. While the article focused on Southern Africa, the South African social work curricula served as the immediate point of reference as documented through the exit-level outcomes and standards, respectively. A defining challenge in this regard is tapping into social work education, practice, and literature related to ecology, based on the rise of natural disasters. Southern Africa, like the rest of the world, is confronted by natural disasters that pose a threat to human life and degradation and destruction of the sustainable physical (natural) environment. The ecosystemic theoretical lens served to explain the humanenvironment interaction. This article calls for a review of education and practice among the helping professions and propounds for the alternative and reviewed understanding of the natural environment, with the person of the place viewed in interaction with the environment. This article recommends reimagined alternative and reviewed interventions, which are African-based, conceptually-relevant, and context-driven. The article concludes the marginalisation of the natural environment in social work education and practice propounds promoting awareness, understanding, and designing interventions that advance environmental sustainability. Keywords: Person-in-environment, person of a place, natural environment, African-centred perspective |
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| Firstname | Emmi |
| Lastname | Muleya |
| Does the Abstract fit the selected Theme? | Yes |
| What Area does this Abstract Focus on? | Empirical Research |
| Status | Accepted |
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| Status | Pending Review |