| Invitation to CSDAs Quarterly Seminar Series 2011, 3 March 2011 |
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 THURSDAY 3 MARCH 2011 14h00 – 16h00 Faculty of Humanities Common Room C Ring 314 University of Johannesburg, Kingsway Campus SEMINAR 1 SPEAKER: Dr. Linda Kreitzer TOPIC Culturally relevant social work curriculum in Africa: Historical issues and practical implementation for the future. ABOUT THE SPEAKER Linda Kreitzer is an associate professor at the University of Calgary, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. In 1994, she went to Ghana to teach social work at the University of Ghana, Legon. It was through this experience that she became interested in issues concerning social work curriculum in Africa. Her PhD work centred on critically examining social work curriculum at the University of Ghana and its relevance to Ghanaian society. Recently, she has worked on getting ASWEA social work documents back to Africa so that the history of social work in Africa can be researched and taught by academics to social workers in Africa. Her forthcoming book “Social Work in Africa: Exploring Culturally Relevant Education and Practice in Ghana” will be out later in 2011. ABOUT THE TOPIC Historically, the social work profession in Africa was exported through the colonial countries and more recently by western schools of social work. The assumption was that western social services and social work curricula were transferable without adaptation. These western curricula’s are increasingly becoming inappropriate for the needs of African countries in their content and adaptability. From a research study facilitated in Ghana in 2004, issues concerning culturally relevant social work curriculum in Ghana will be presented as well as ways forward to make curricula more culturally appropriate. Included in this seminar will be an understanding of how the social work profession evolved in West and East Africa by presenting the Association for Social Work Education in Africa (ASWEA) seminars held between 1970-1989 and some of the issues concerning social work education they discussed as the profession grew in Africa. RSVP ON OR BEFORE: Friday 25 February for catering purposes For more information please contact Memory Mphapuli This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Bookmark this article:          |
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