CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS CAN BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CONSCIOUS AND INTENTIONAL KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT: CASE-SPECIFIC REFLECTIONS

There is often a divide between the world of formal theory development and the world of social work practice. The author explored how Continuous Professional Development workshops could be used consciously and intentionally in knowledge development by applying the six steps of the reflexive cycle in the Heuristic Research model to data collected at a workshop on disability care management presented to social workers of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. From the reflections it seems that teaching the Osmond’s Knowledge Spectrum (2005) to workshop participants could empower participants to actively participate in knowledge development within the field of social work