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Social Development and Social Work: Learning from Africa

Editat de Alice Butterfield, Tasse Abye
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 dec 2012
Africa has a long experience with reducing poverty and vulnerability. In the contemporary period, social development and social work are at the forefront of dealing with abject poverty and some of the world’s most difficult problems. This book brings research in Africa to the forefront so that those in other regions of the world can learn from it. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Community Practice.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415528160
ISBN-10: 041552816X
Pagini: 230
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Professional

Cuprins

Foreword James Midgley  1. Introduction: Can Africa Learn From Africa? Can the World Learn From Africa? Tasse Abye and Alice K. Butterfield  PART I: THEORY  2. Indigenous Welfare and Community-Based Social Development: Lessons from African Innovations Leila Patel, Edwell Kaseke and James Midgley  3. Community-Based Juvenile Offender Programs in South Africa: Lessons Learned Willem Roestenburg and Emmerentie Oliphant  4. Women, Social Networks, and HIV Wassie Kebede  PART II: POLICY  5. Replacement Feeding Experiences of HIV-Positive Mothers in Ethiopia Bogale Abera Woldegiyorgis and James L. Scherrer  6. Formerly Abducted Child Mothers in Northern Uganda: A Critique of Modern Structures for Child Protection and Reintegration Eric Awich Ochen, Adele D. Jones and James W. McAuley  7. Trafficked to the Gulf States: The Experiences of Ethiopian Returnee Women Abebaw Minaye  PART III: PRACTICE  8. "We Can’t Eat a Road:" Asset-Based Community Development and The Gedam Sefer Community Partnership in Ethiopia Mulu Yeneabat and Alice K. Butterfield  9. The Grassroots Londolozi Model of African Development: Social Empathy in Action Kate Groch, Karen E. Gerdes, Elizabeth A. Segal and Maureen Groch  10. An Integrated Developmental Model for Poverty Reduction in South Africa: An NGO’s Perspective Antoinette Lombard, Marieta Kemp, Nelie Viljoen-Toet and Martie Booyzen  11. Promoting Social Development: Building a Professional Social Work Association in Namibia Janetta Ananias and Elizabeth Lightfoot  12. Conclusion: Learning from Africa: Publication and Research Alice K. Butterfield and Tasse Abye

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Africa has a long experience with reducing poverty and vulnerability. In the contemporary period, social development and social work are at the forefront of dealing with abject poverty and some of the world’s most difficult problems. This book brings research in Africa to the forefront so that those in other regions of the world can learn from it. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Community Practice.