How South African social workers assess their professional education in the light of practice realities.

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dc.contributor.authorO'Brien, Constance Rosemary
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-30T12:34:15Z
dc.date.available2019-07-30T12:34:15Z
dc.date.issued1990
dc.descriptionA Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Social Worken_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis study investigated social work practitioners' experience of the 'fit' between their professional preparation and their practice situation by focusing on the following: (1 ) (i) A profile of social work graduates' work histories; (ii) Social work graduates' perceptions of social work; (iii) The rature of graduates' present work tasks, and whether or not they believed these ^asks to be appropriate; (iv) The rature of graduates' work circumstances, especially in relation to; - the bureaucratic settings of social work practice -the system of supervisory control over practitioners - the availability of resources both tangible and intangible - irstitutionalized racism in the welfare field (v) Whether or not their professional education and training had prepared them to carry out their work tasks and to function effectively within their work circumstances. An analysiii of the fourth year social work curriculum, offered at the University of the Witwatersrand, for the purpose of identifying its nature and the core body of knowledge, values and skills with which professional social work education seeks to equip each graduate for 'beginning practice competence'; (3) On the basis of data gathered from (1) and (2) above, to formulate educational and training strategies which would address present and future practice. A quantitative-descriptive research design was used. A random sample of sixty graduates was drawn from the social work graduate population of the University of the Witwatersrand (1979-1986) and was stratified into a white sub-sample serving as a comparison group to a black sub-sample. (Abbreviation abstract)en_ZA
dc.description.librarianAndrew Chakane 2019en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/27833
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subjectSocial work education -- South Africa.en_ZA
dc.titleHow South African social workers assess their professional education in the light of practice realities.en_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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