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Submission Number: 122
Submission ID: 926
Submission UUID: 7adb1936-6414-4886-82a3-b689615b348a
Submission URI: /2025/abstracts
Created: Wed, 04/30/2025 - 13:52
Completed: Wed, 04/30/2025 - 14:21
Changed: Tue, 05/20/2025 - 08:18
Remote IP address: 146.141.14.52
Submitted by: Anonymous
Language: English
Is draft: No
Current page: Complete
Webform: Abstract
Presenters
Prof.
Pillay
Roshini
University of the witwatersrand
Roshini Pillay is an Associate Professor in Social Work at the University of the Witwatersrand bringing over 20 years of practice experience to her role. Her research interests encompass group work, technology-enhanced learning in social work education, social justice, and Occupational Social Work. Currently, she leads the podcast, called “Social Work Khuluma” on social work education. Roshini is also an editor of the 2023 book "Transforming Teaching and Learning for Helping Professions in Higher Education: Global Perspectives" by Brill.
Her ORCID number is 0000-0002-6873-1040.
Her ORCID number is 0000-0002-6873-1040.
Yes
Dr.
Mabvira
Agrippa
The University of the Witwatersrand
Dr. Agrippa Mabvira recently earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. In addition, he received the Postgraduate Merit Award while pursuing his doctoral degree. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow within the Department of Social Work at the University of the Witwatersrand. Prior to that, he served as Teaching Assistant within the same department. His research interests span a wide range of crucial topics, including Immigration, Decolonisation, Intellectual Disability, Education, Photovoice, Participatory Action Research, Acculturation and Child Welfare.
Yes
Ms
Mathebula
Siphathisene
The University of the Witwatersrand
Spha Mdlalose is a wearer of many hats - a singer and songwriter by night and a research assistant and podcast host by day. Mdlalose is has been steadily making her mark in the music industry collaborating with a number of prominent artists and earning 3 SAMA nominations for her debut album Indleleyekhaya released in 2019.
In 2023, Mdlalose graduated from the Henley Business School with a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) something that renewed her belief in the potential that the creative industries hold. She is currently working as a research assistant at Wits University.
In 2023, Mdlalose graduated from the Henley Business School with a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) something that renewed her belief in the potential that the creative industries hold. She is currently working as a research assistant at Wits University.
Abstract
Social Work Education post Covid 19 Course Redesign- Rediscovering new ways of learning and teaching in South Africa
THEME 4: Social Work Education, Transdisciplinarity and Curriculum Development
SUB 4.2 Strategies on building responsive social work curricula.
Oral Presentation
This presentation shares information about a collaborative project that spans 2023-2025 by nine educators representing various higher education institutions across South Africa. The project seeks to examine course design in a post COVID-19 era. The project was funded by the National Research Fund and considered how social work course design has or has not changed since COVID 19. The initial phase of the project began by reviewing the value of the elements of authentic eLearning in social work course design. As the project is ongoing until the end of 2025 some of the preliminary learnings and artefacts will be shared. Two questions that the presentation will unpack are:
1. Why the use of Authentic eLearning has the potential for social work students to achieve success in the workplace
2. What are the elements of Authentic eLearning –
1. Development of an authentic context
2. Development of a complex and messy problem
3. Iteration
4. Reflection
5. Expert performance
6. Collaboration
7. Articulation and debate
8. Socio-emotional learning
9. Coaching and scaffolding
10. Multiple sources of information
Aspects that will be explored include the affordances and constraints of this framework for social work education. Significant contributions of this framework are the use of experiential learning and collaborative learning. However, incorporating the ten elements is both time-consuming and requires the use of various creative strategies such as photovoice. As part of the presentation, some of the artefacts created during the project are shared, along with the website https://www.social-work-education-sa.org/, which provides additional resources and context. The presentation has value for social work educators as it offers new and exciting ways for course design within the South African Context that promotes student-centred learning.
1. Why the use of Authentic eLearning has the potential for social work students to achieve success in the workplace
2. What are the elements of Authentic eLearning –
1. Development of an authentic context
2. Development of a complex and messy problem
3. Iteration
4. Reflection
5. Expert performance
6. Collaboration
7. Articulation and debate
8. Socio-emotional learning
9. Coaching and scaffolding
10. Multiple sources of information
Aspects that will be explored include the affordances and constraints of this framework for social work education. Significant contributions of this framework are the use of experiential learning and collaborative learning. However, incorporating the ten elements is both time-consuming and requires the use of various creative strategies such as photovoice. As part of the presentation, some of the artefacts created during the project are shared, along with the website https://www.social-work-education-sa.org/, which provides additional resources and context. The presentation has value for social work educators as it offers new and exciting ways for course design within the South African Context that promotes student-centred learning.
Reviewer ONE Feedback
Dr
Ilze
Slabbert
Yes
Education
Accepted
Reviewer TWO Feedback
Professor
Mbongeni
Sithole
Yes
Empirical Research
Accepted