Yasmin Turton
Biographic Data
| ID | 5822151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yasmin Turton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yasmin |
| FAMILY NAME | Turton |
| SIGNATURE | TURTON Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6079-7953 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A community of practice approach for school-based developmental social work in South Africa
This article reports on social worker reflections on the benefits and barriers of a multisectoral community of practice to improve child well-being for beneficiaries of the Child Support Grant in poor urban communities in Johannesburg, South Africa. The findings could inform cash plus school based social work policies and practice
Contextualized Social Work Education
Because dominant social work is mismatched to many contexts, alternative practice and educational approaches have emerged. To highlight educational examples, this phenomenological study explores the experience of 28 Canadian and South African educators teaching alternative social work. These educators conceptualized a multidimensional, integrated, contextualized framework that attends to power and resistance, and extends critical social work educ…
Transforming Social Work
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 culturally inappropriate, marginalises other knowledges, overlooks structural issues, is expensive and is mismatched to local needs. The term “contextualised social work education” as used in this article incorporates the local foc…
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Transforming Social Work
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 culturally inappropriate, marginalises other knowledges, overlooks structural issues, is expensive and is mismatched to local needs. The term “contextualised social work education” as used in this article incorporates the local foc…
Contextualized Social Work Education
Because dominant social work is mismatched to many contexts, alternative practice and educational approaches have emerged. To highlight educational examples, this phenomenological study explores the experience of 28 Canadian and South African educators teaching alternative social work. These educators conceptualized a multidimensional, integrated, contextualized framework that attends to power and resistance, and extends critical social work educ…
A community of practice approach for school-based developmental social work in South Africa
This article reports on social worker reflections on the benefits and barriers of a multisectoral community of practice to improve child well-being for beneficiaries of the Child Support Grant in poor urban communities in Johannesburg, South Africa. The findings could inform cash plus school based social work policies and practice
Political science (3 works) · Social Work (3 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Child and Adolescent Health (1 works) · Community practice (1 works)