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Submission Number: 141
Submission ID: 989
Submission UUID: b8a2f785-24e8-452c-9287-fb7729fd9acc
Submission URI: /2025/abstracts
Created: Fri, 05/16/2025 - 10:21
Completed: Fri, 05/16/2025 - 10:36
Changed: Tue, 06/10/2025 - 12:44
Remote IP address: 41.122.6.248
Submitted by: Anonymous
Language: English
Is draft: No
Current page: Complete
Webform: Abstract
| Title | Dr. |
|---|---|
| Lastname | Mabvira |
| Firstname | Agrippa |
| agrippamabvira@gmail.com | |
| Mobile | 0815472060 |
| Institution | University of the witwatersrand |
| Biosketch | Dr. Agrippa Mabvira is a Postdoctoral Fellow within the Department of Social Work at the University of the Witwatersrand. Before that, he was a Teaching Assistant in the same department during his Doctoral studies, where he was honoured with the Postgraduate Merit Award. His research interests span a wide range of crucial topics, including Authentic Learning, Immigration, Decolonisation, Intellectual Disability, Photovoice, Radical Social Work, Participatory Action Research and Acculturation |
| Is there a Second Presenter? | Yes |
| Title | Prof. |
| Lastname | Khosa |
| Firstname | Priscalia |
| priscaliak@uj.ac.za | |
| Mobile | 0609391655 |
| Institution | University of Johannesburg |
| Biosketch | Prof. Priscalia Khosa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work and Community Development at the University of Johannesburg. She teaches social work supervision and health modules at the undergraduate level. She has published widely on her fields of research, including social work supervision, social work education, substance abuse and decolonial research. She also supervises postgraduate students’ research. |
| Is there a Third Presenter? | Yes |
| Title | Prof |
| Lastname | Najma |
| Firstname | Agherdien |
| najma.aghardien@wits.ac.za | |
| Mobile | 0823388899 |
| Institution | University of the Witwatersrand |
| Biosketch | Prof. Najma Agherdien is an Associate Professor in Higher Education studies at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development at the University of the Witwatersrand. She crafts diverse learning experiences through workshops, short courses, and formal programmes. Her work is underpinned by a social justice lens. |
| Title of Presentatation | The Process of Critical Collaborations on South African Social Work Education: A Participatory Action Research Approach. |
| Theme Selection | THEME 4: Social Work Education, Transdisciplinarity and Curriculum Development |
| Subtheme FOUR Selection | SUB 4.2 Strategies on building responsive social work curricula. |
| Select your Presentation Type | Oral Presentation |
| Abstract | This presentation reports on the significance of collaborative, relationship-centered engagement in social work education. It details a project involving South African social work educators, a curriculum specialist, and a postgraduate fellow who worked together to redesign social work courses using authentic, technology-enhanced learning methods. Motivated by a shared commitment to pedagogical innovation, the aim of this project was to develop real-world scenarios, strategies, and guidelines to improve teaching and learning in social work education by using authentic learning principles. The project was grounded in Educational Design Research (EDR) and participatory action research (PAR), emphasizing co-learning and democratic collaboration amongst team members. Aligning with PAR, this presentation reports on thematically analysed reflective accounts from researchers as participants which highlights both the transformative potential and the challenges of PAR in respect of group collaboration, including conflict avoidance and power dynamics. Recommendations centre around consciously harnessing individual academic strengths of the researcher-participants, clearer group communication, creating spaces of trust to enable authentic researcher-participant reflections as well as ethical accountability and consistent contributions towards the project outcomes. |
| Title | Dr |
| Firstname | Ilze |
| Lastname | Slabbert |
| Does the Abstract fit the selected Theme? | Yes |
| What Area does this Abstract Focus on? | Education |
| Status | Accepted |
| Title | Professor |
| Firstname | Mbongeni |
| Lastname | Sithole |
| Does the Abstract fit the selected Theme? | Yes |
| What Area does this Abstract Focus on? | Education |
| Status | Accepted |