African philosophy
The center of African-centered social work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2168787 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Colita Nichols Fairfax (0009-0003-3271-610X) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 7-14 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1091-1359 • E-ISSN: 1540-3556 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10911359.2016.1252599 |
| OpenAlex | W2550665928 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
Social work is an applied science of the best approaches and practices to populations that have been systemically dispossessed of themselves, their humanity, and the philosophical constructs that reflect their psychological and cultural processes. There is a fundamental need for social workers to learn the importance of philosophy in theory and practice, so that interventions are based out of relevant frameworks in a people’s long history. African personhood is a viable philosophical framework with applicable tenants in best practices with the African diasporic community, in areas of employment, education, marriage-family development, spiritual reconciliation, and other aspects of life and living, that, without a philosophical application, renders people without important concepts of being, which is tantamount to living as moral, ethical, and spiritual agents. This article explores the importance of social work, advancing its philosophy discourse, while introducing African personhood as a construct of healing and human transformative dialogical enterprise. Cultural competency is for naught if enlightenment and moral/spiritual/ethical issues are not addressed when people are recovering from human tragedies of abuse, divorce, incarceration, homelessness, foster care, substance abuse, and underemployment. Cultural competency is not only practice acumen, but philosophical alignment with constructs that unravel our attendance to how people conceptualize and understand themselves
African philosophy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Pedagogy · Personhood · Political science · Sociology · Transformative learning · African cultural and philosophical studies · Social Work Education and Practice · Theological Perspectives and Practices · Social Work · Law
What is Philosophy?
An Oral Philosophy of Personhood
The Origins and Character of American Exceptionalism
Negotiating Gender and Personhood in the New South Africa
Toward an African Moral Theory
Can a communitarian concept of African personhood be both relational and gender-neutral
Moral Foundations of Social Welfare and Social Work
The Parochial Universalist Conception of 'Philosophy' and 'African Philosophy
Philosophy of social science
Globalization and the History of Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |