Sources of knowledge transfer between the Global South and the Global North in social work education

This chapter draws on the authors' collective experiences of social work education and knowledge mobility as social work students, researchers, and educators in three countries in the Global North. It discusses knowledge transfer through four channels: social work education, research, academic publication, and digital information-sharing platforms. It promotes co-constructed knowledge sharing to facilitate decolonisation and recommends a review of social work curricula globally to ensure they examine the origins of knowledge taught in light of the international definition's thrust towards local and cultural relevance and the Global Agenda's embrace of Ubuntu in its first theme to strengthen social solidarity and global connectedness. In so doing, it recommends the inclusion of indigenous teaching methods, knowledge, and research frameworks to foster social work's engagement with Indigenous Peoples' issues, noting a premier role for the profession's international education body in leading the decolonising thrust in social work education.