Transcending the Eurocentric Development Paradigms in Nigeria: The Traditional Age Grades in Discourse

Strategic processes to further the professional status of social work in Nigeria

“…However, it has proved extremely difficult to unseat colonial social welfare policies and structures and disembed methods of helping that were inherently Eurocentric and unresponsive to local sociocultural mores and complexities. Most importantly, given the importance of social work education in shaping knowledge and practice, of ongoing concern is what has proved an extremely difficult undertaking to introduce indigenous content into the curriculum (Okoye, 2014; Ugiagbe, 2015, 2017; Ugiagbe and Ugiagbe, 2015). Indigenisation ‒ or the adaptation of Western knowledge to fit local sociocultural realities within the framework of global standards of social work education and practice (International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) and International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), 2020) ‒ remains a major challenge for social work in Nigeria.…”