Social Work Khuluma | Season 1 | EP 7 | Indigenous Group Work Methods

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In this interview with Professor Thobeka Nkomo who is a good friend, colleague and an associate professor at the University of Witwatersrand, School of Human and community Development in the department of social work.

In this interview she shares various aspects of group work as it related to a Christian Church and her role as a wife of a pastor (umfazi womfundisi). In this role, she leads various women’s groups and she give her first-hand experiences of this. She chats about how conflict is managed in groups and the similarities and differences between Western views on group work and South African practices of groupwork within a church setting.

Activities such as dance and song are touched upon. This interview contributes to developing knowledge on indigenous group work methods used in the past and today. She also shared her three important books.
17 Apr 2023 English South Africa Education

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