Schmid, Jeanette

Transforming social work: Contextualised social work education in South Africa

Turton, Yasmin; Schmid, Jeanette (Stellenbosch University (SUN Journals), 2020)

Despite significant transformation efforts in South African social welfare, social work education still inducts students into prevailing paradigms. Critics suggest that dominant social work is ineffective in that it is ...
Pulling together the threads: Current understandings of contextualized social work education

Schmid, Jeanette; Morgenshtern, Marina (University of Windsor, 2019-07-18)

Dominant social work approaches are increasingly problematized. In many contexts mainstreamed social work practices and knowledges are inappropriate and eclipse alternative ways of knowing, being, and doing. Moreover, ...