PERCEPTIONS OF SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS REGARDING THE ASSET-BASED COMMUNITY-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT (ABCD) APPROACH: A SOUTH AFRICAN STUDY

Asset-based community-driven development (ABCD) has gained momentum in social work education over the last ten years. This mix-method study presents students’ perceptions of relevance and application ABCD at two universities South Africa. The students perceived as a relevant approach that shifts community members from deficit orientation focused on lack needs to one which people utilise their assets take ownership own future. However, experienced challenges facilitating members’ movement being passive recipients services benefits seeing themselves change agents driving development. results are intended contribute curricular pedagogical improvements. Keywords: asset-based (ABCD), problem-based approach, education,