{"id":5062,"date":"2025-06-19T23:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T23:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/wrestling-with-the-present-to-re-imagine-the-future-of-social-entrepreneurship-in-social-work-a-south-african-context\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T03:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T03:19:55","slug":"wrestling-with-the-present-to-re-imagine-the-future-of-social-entrepreneurship-in-social-work-a-south-african-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/wrestling-with-the-present-to-re-imagine-the-future-of-social-entrepreneurship-in-social-work-a-south-african-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling with the Present to Re-Imagine the Future of Social Entrepreneurship in Social Work: A South African Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: <strong>Wrestling with the Present to Re-Imagine the Future of Social Entrepreneurship in Social Work: A South African Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original Article Link: <a href='https:\/\/journals.dut.ac.za\/index.php\/ajims\/article\/view\/1292' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download PDF: <a href='https:\/\/journals.dut.ac.za\/index.php\/ajims\/article\/view\/1292\/984' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Click Here to Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>South Africa faces many problems that require the attention of social workers. It wrestles with youth unemployment, and social work graduates are not immune to this plight. Despite the profession\u2019s mandate of promoting social change, empowerment and liberation, the social work curriculum fails to prepare graduates for entrepreneurial opportunities. Moreover, there is a dearth of research on how the current curriculum transforms and empowers graduates to explore the untapped space of social entrepreneurship in curbing unemployment. This article utilises the Focused Mapping Review and Synthesis method to explore how unemployed social work graduates can re-imagine the future through social entrepreneurship. The review confirms that little is known on how social work graduates could apply entrepreneurship to reduce unemployment. The authors argue that the current social work curriculum must incorporate social entrepreneurship as a model for graduates to respond to the country\u2019s unemployment crisis. This is significant since institutions of higher learning strive for transformation in developing innovative, long-term solutions to persistent social problems.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Goitseone Leburu (University of South Africa, South Africa)<\/li>\n<li>Rebecca Skhosana (University of South Africa, South Africa)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>social entrepreneurship, social work, social work graduates, unemployment, youth<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: Wrestling with the Present to Re-Imagine the Future of Social Entrepreneurship in Social Work:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[2153,1645,1646,1647,1546,1341],"class_list":["post-5062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ajims","tag-social-entrepreneurship","tag-social-work","tag-social-work-graduates","tag-unemployment","tag-youth","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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