By Mel Gray

ISBN-10: 1472468511

ISBN-13: 9781472468512

All contemporary books on overseas social paintings point out Africa merely in short and few have interaction with the wider box of improvement stories. This e-book focuses completely at the distinctive African context attractive with matters with regards to social paintings and improvement extra commonly hence permitting a deeper exam and extra complicated and nuanced photo to emerge. in contrast to so much educational works, this booklet highlights a number of practitioner voices, with authors or co-authors that experience lately been or are at the moment working towards social staff. As an edited booklet, it attracts from either educational learn in addition to lived perform adventure, supported via robust theoretical positioning and suggestions in introductory chapters, drawing on African literature, at any place attainable. case-studies from Lesotho, Botswana, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Namibia, Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Rwanda, and Tanzania and protecting tested components of perform corresponding to baby defense; operating with older humans; operating with individuals with disabilities; psychological future health; and mainstream providers concentrating on girls in addition to rising parts of developmental social paintings perform, resembling humanitarian suggestions in post-conflict events; paintings with immigrants and refugees; and the educational of community-based staff, this booklet takes a future-oriented point of view that goals to maneuver past well-worn evaluations to check optimistic and sustainable futures for social paintings and social improvement in Africa from a severe perspective.

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