Professional Social Work in East Africa : Towards Social Development, Poverty Reduction and Gender Equality /

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Prevalent poverty and related problems in the East African region call for substantial action from various stakeholders, including social workers. This book, based on comprehensive empirical research, portrays an emerging yet powerful profession that has a significant role to play in the endeavour t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wairire, Gidraph (Editor ), Twikirize, Janestic M. (Editor ), Spitzer, Helmut (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social service > Africa, East.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Professional social work in East Africa : a foreword / James Midgley
  • Preface : trans-cultural spaces of knowledge / Andreas J. Obrecht
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the editors and authors
  • Map of Africa showing East African countries
  • PROSOWO : a project to professionalise social work in East Africa / Helmut Spitzer and Janestic M. Twikirize
  • Theoretical perspectives and reflections
  • The origin and status of social work in East Africa
  • The role of social work in poverty reduction : empirical findings
  • Social policy, gender and conflict : the role of social work
  • The way forward.

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