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23 Int'l Soc. Work 1 (1980)

handle is hein.journals/intsocwk23 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL E XCEPT for one paper, this issue dwells heavily on programs in Africa. Dr. Obikeze's study of the most ap- propriate method of child care in resettling war-displaced children in Nigeria found that foster care and legal adoption appeared most appropriate in keeping with the criterion of cultural compatibility. Legal adoption was appropriate in keeping with another cri- terion, best overall development of the child. The overall study which includes an evalua- tion of the relative effectiveness of fostering, reunion with parents and institutionalization shows that institutionalization is the least appropriate method of child care. Dr. Sung's paper, the exception mention- ed above, is a study of an integrated program for school age mothers and pregnant teena- gers in Kalamazoo, Michigan. This pro- gram is unique because it combines within one structure social services, health care and day care with formal junior and senior high school education. It is this unusual combination of services, which in the author's view, suggests applicability else- where. Dr. Haynes' paper is a thoughtful presen- tation of desirable patterns of social work education in the Third World, with special reference to Egypt. Its constructive ad- vocacy of a developmental model of social work education appears, in this editor's view, to be compatible with the needs of this country at the present time. Agere's paper on Health Care focuses on Zambia. The author's thesis is that repli- cation in Zambia, of American type middle class based patterns of resource allocation and distribution of health care and per- sonnel has contributed to inadequate care in Zambia. In the author's view the elimi- nation of dependency in health care on developed nations would require radical and economic transformation of society in deve- loping nations. Elizabeth Brooks' also focusing on Zambia, provides a rationale for generic social work education on the undergraduate level. She examines the evolution of the concept gene- ric, argues its usefulness to the needs of a developing society like Zambia in preparing social work personnel equiped for such functions as administration, planning and supervision. In her view such training would enable social workers to participate in the national development effort of the country. It may be worth noting that this paper in a sense joins the paper on Egypt by Haynes by espousing a similar ideology of social work education. Werner W. Boehm Editor-in-Chief

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