Twenty‐Two Years of Training Social Work Practitioners in Africa: Reflections on Strategies and Techniques

Abstract

Reminisces on teaching social work from the baccalaureate through the doctoral level for more than two decades, with special attention to comparing classroom teaching and field work supervision; provides an overview of strategies of the lecture methods which have been found to be successful; also discusses methods such as small group interaction, role play, use of teaching technologies, and incorporation of indigenous music.

Keywords:

• Development
• sector planning
• dependency syndrome
• small‐group model