Social work education in Nigeria and the search for enhanced local relevance: perspectives from social work academics

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“…Currently, many of the models, theories, and perspectives we use in social work are all borrowed from Western textbooks. Therefore, a major challenge facing social work in Nigeria today is the indigenisation of the social work curriculum to suit Nigerian-trained students who wish to practice social work with Nigeria as focus Levy et al 2022;Onalu & Okoye, 2022;Chukwu, et al 2022).…”

“…There are studies that have documented the need for social workers to rally around a social work-centred/led coalition to scale up voice and correct anomalies that have continued to mar the full maturity of the profession in Nigeria ( Agwu et al, 2023;Chukwu et al 2022;Amadasun, 2022). The time to act is now.…”