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Carving a Professional Identity for Chinese Social Work Shaped by Universalisation, Indigenisation, and Culturalism.
- Source :
- British Journal of Social Work; Jun2024, Vol. 54 Issue 4, p1679-1697, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- China provides an extremely interesting contemporary case study for the international social work research community, given its questioning of the pertinence of the international definition of social work and stance in relation to the debates surrounding universalisation, internationalisation and indigenisation. This article begins by examining the evolving identity of Chinese social work, grounded as it is in China's political ideology and socio-cultural values. It then extends the debate on the paradoxical processes of universalisation, internationalisation and indigenisation within the international and Chinese social work discourse in light of the ascendance of Chinese culturalism. Finally, it addresses the impact of these interrelated processes on Chinese social work, as it struggled to adapt to the central government's political control of the developing profession and social project to train 1.45 million social workers by 2020. It argues that, to avoid the Scylla of escaping into tradition (culturalism) and Charybdis of absorption into the West (universalisation), Chinese social work has become a blend of Western and indigenised knowledge still in search of a unique identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- DEBATE
SELF-efficacy
SOCIAL justice
PROFESSIONAL practice
SOCIAL cohesion
SOCIAL services
PROFESSIONAL identity
CULTURAL values
PHILOSOPHY
GOAL (Psychology)
SOCIAL work education
SOCIAL case work
HUMAN rights
RACISM
SOCIAL work research
PRACTICAL politics
CULTURAL pluralism
DISCIPLINE of children
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00453102
- Volume :
- 54
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- British Journal of Social Work
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 178184596
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcad214