This book is suitable for lecturers and students doing certificate, diploma, bachelor, master and doctoral courses. The highlights are:
1. Focuses on all social services.
2. Basic research concepts and processes are embedded in all chapters.
3. Fieldwork is embedded in all chapters.
4. A key theme is decolonising social services.
5. Another theme is indigenisation and re-indigenisation of social services.
6. Each chapter has a list of objectives, skills and competencies.
7. There is a chapter on using Ubuntu outside Africa
8. Guidance on how to use Ubuntu is provided for evey chapter.
9. There are questions, activities and ideas for assessments, research and fieldwork.
10. A glossary of terms is provided at the end of each chapter.
11. A list of used and recommended references is provided per chapter.