Inequality and Underdevelopment: Issues for a Social Development Curriculum

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Title:	Inequality and Underdevelopment: Issues for a Social Development Curriculum
Author:	Dlamini, Phiwase M.
Year:	1995
Periodical:	Journal of Social Development in Africa (ISSN 1012-1080)
Volume:	10
Issue:	2
Pages:	23-33
Language:	English
Notes:	biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:	South Africa Southern Africa
Subjects:	social work social work education Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations Development and Technology Education and Oral Traditions sociology social inequality underdevelopment education Curriculum planning
Abstract:	Previous governmental policies in South Africa created a situation where institutional poverty fostered inequality and divisions along racial, gender and class lines. With this historical legacy in mind, the author examines the context of social work practice in South Africa, and points out that previous social work roles were compromised by the fact that social workers were forced to operate within an inequitable system and assist people in adapting to the status quo. Now that South Africa is governed by a government of national unity, that provides human and individual rights for all, university social work departments face a challenge of relevance in the training of human resources. The author outlines a rationale for a social development curriculum in South Africa that seeks to redress the economic and political injustices of the past. Bibliogr., sum.