Indigenizing the social work curriculum: Traditional structures as live wire to sustainable community development projects in Nigeria

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dc.contributor.authorVeta, Dennis
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-26T09:11:31Z
dc.date.available2023-06-26T09:11:31Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractSocial work is a profession that strongly recognizes the importance of social contexts in teaching, learning, practice, and in research work. The profession’s activities are not strange to Nigerians and Africans as a whole in aspects of initiating and attaining sustainable community development projects. This predated the colonial era. Social work is only differently packaged, induced by Western concepts and theories. The paper argues that for effective teaching, learning, and practice of social work in order to attain sustainable community development projects in Nigeria and other African countries, indigenizing the curriculum is paramount. In this regard, emphasis should be placed on the importance of traditional structures and other formations such as town unions and clubs; which reflect the African heritage. The Nigerian communities, in the pre-colonial era, with these traditional structures, were able to easily sensitize and mobilize their members to embark on self-help projects. These (projects) they planned and executed by labour and financial contributions. Citizen participation was upheld and projects were sustainable. It is the contention of this paper, therefore, that traditional structures and other indigenous formations be given adequate recognition and embedded in our curriculum (teaching and learning). Thus, in practice, they will be duly recognized and mobilized to participate in the community development process towards attaining success and sustainability in development projects in Nigeria and other African countries.en_US
dc.identifier.citationVeta, O. D. (2012)Indigenizing the social work curriculum: Traditional structures as live wire to sustainable community development projects in Nigeria. Journal of Social Work Educators, 2(1), 1-18en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/20.500.12484/11277
dc.publisherNigerian Association of Social Work Educatorsen_US
dc.subjectIndigenizing, Social work education, Curriculum, Development, Nigeriaen_US
dc.titleIndigenizing the social work curriculum: Traditional structures as live wire to sustainable community development projects in Nigeriaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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