Sharlotte Tusasiirwe
Biographic Data
| ID | 4298715 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharlotte Tusasiirwe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharlotte |
| FAMILY NAME | Tusasiirwe |
| SIGNATURE | TUSASIIRWE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Internationalizing social work curriculum through student co-development and co-delivery of content
Internationalization of societies is occurring across the globe but there is insufficient literature on how social work is internationalizing its curriculum to align with these societal demands. In Australia, for example, where one in four people are born overseas and in addition, the country has taken on international students in most of its social work programmes, internationalization of the curriculum becomes inevitable for social justice’s sa…
Facilitators and barriers to the use of Ubuntu values in social work and social development
The article explores the facilitators and barriers to integrating Ubuntu values into social work and social development practice. Ubuntu values justice, freedom, community, reciprocal relations, responsibility, service to humanity, culture, and spirituality. Drawing from an empirical study involving participants from 19 African countries, the research highlights Ubuntu not merely as a philosophical abstraction but as a lived and culturally embedd…
The myth of postcolonialism in Africa
Arguably, the achievement of independence of most African countries that started in the 1960s ushered in the post-colonial era for Africa. This article explores the myth of post-colonialism in Africa and its ongoing manifestations. The manifestation categories addressed in the article are stolen artefacts and African spirituality, linguicide and ethnocide, the loss of the African naming system, internalised colonialism and beauty standards, and m…
Ubuntu philosophy, values, and principles
Rising immigration and increasing cultural diversity globally highlight the need to decolonize social work and challenge the hegemony of Western-centric cultural and epistemological foundations. This article explores how Ubuntu philosophy can serve as a global decolonizing framework in social work education and practice. Using a reflective conceptual analysis process, we explored Ubuntu as an alternative paradigm for social work educators, resear…
Disrupting colonisation in the social work classroom
Social work around the world has been, uncritically, defined from a mostly white western perspective influenced predominantly by the profession’s development in Europe and North America. Western values and epistemologies have been taken as a given. However, with the increasing influence of social constructionism and post-colonialism, there is growing acceptance that epistemologies are cultural constructions and that the White Western perspectives…
Religion and spirituality in social work in Uganda
There is a conspicuous silence about the role of religion and spirituality in social work in Uganda, yet they are critical components in the lives of social workers and their clients. The authors’ collective experience of social work education in Uganda, South Africa, Sweden, the UK, and Australia affirmed to an absence of content on religion and spirituality in social work education. Most universities in Uganda incorporate little content on spir…
Ubuntu Philosophy and Decolonising Social Work Fields of Practice in Africa
"This book addresses a recurrent gap in social work literature by examining Ubuntu as an Indigenous African philosophy that informs social work beyond the largely residual and individualistic conceptualisation of social work that currently prevails in many contexts. Owing to the lack of social work theories, models and generally, literature that is locally and contextually relevant, most social work lecturers based in African context, struggle to…
Ubuntu Philosophy and Decolonising Social Work Fields of Practice in Africa
"This book addresses a recurrent gap in social work literature by examining Ubuntu as an Indigenous African philosophy that informs social work beyond the largely residual and individualistic conceptualisation of social work that currently prevails in many contexts. Owing to the lack of social work theories, models and generally, literature that is locally and contextually relevant, most social work lecturers based in African context, struggle to…
Religion and spirituality in social work in Uganda
There is a conspicuous silence about the role of religion and spirituality in social work in Uganda, yet they are critical components in the lives of social workers and their clients. The authors’ collective experience of social work education in Uganda, South Africa, Sweden, the UK, and Australia affirmed to an absence of content on religion and spirituality in social work education. Most universities in Uganda incorporate little content on spir…
Ubuntu Philosophy and Decolonising Social Work Fields of Practice in Africa
"This book addresses a recurrent gap in social work literature by examining Ubuntu as an Indigenous African philosophy that informs social work beyond the largely residual and individualistic conceptualisation of social work that currently prevails in many contexts. Owing to the lack of social work theories, models and generally, literature that is locally and contextually relevant, most social work lecturers based in African context, struggle to…
Disrupting colonisation in the social work classroom
Social work around the world has been, uncritically, defined from a mostly white western perspective influenced predominantly by the profession’s development in Europe and North America. Western values and epistemologies have been taken as a given. However, with the increasing influence of social constructionism and post-colonialism, there is growing acceptance that epistemologies are cultural constructions and that the White Western perspectives…
The myth of postcolonialism in Africa
Arguably, the achievement of independence of most African countries that started in the 1960s ushered in the post-colonial era for Africa. This article explores the myth of post-colonialism in Africa and its ongoing manifestations. The manifestation categories addressed in the article are stolen artefacts and African spirituality, linguicide and ethnocide, the loss of the African naming system, internalised colonialism and beauty standards, and m…
Ubuntu philosophy, values, and principles
Rising immigration and increasing cultural diversity globally highlight the need to decolonize social work and challenge the hegemony of Western-centric cultural and epistemological foundations. This article explores how Ubuntu philosophy can serve as a global decolonizing framework in social work education and practice. Using a reflective conceptual analysis process, we explored Ubuntu as an alternative paradigm for social work educators, resear…
Internationalizing social work curriculum through student co-development and co-delivery of content
Internationalization of societies is occurring across the globe but there is insufficient literature on how social work is internationalizing its curriculum to align with these societal demands. In Australia, for example, where one in four people are born overseas and in addition, the country has taken on international students in most of its social work programmes, internationalization of the curriculum becomes inevitable for social justice’s sa…
Facilitators and barriers to the use of Ubuntu values in social work and social development
The article explores the facilitators and barriers to integrating Ubuntu values into social work and social development practice. Ubuntu values justice, freedom, community, reciprocal relations, responsibility, service to humanity, culture, and spirituality. Drawing from an empirical study involving participants from 19 African countries, the research highlights Ubuntu not merely as a philosophical abstraction but as a lived and culturally embedd…
Social Work (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Curriculum (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Social science (3 works)