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Asian Social Work : Professional Work in National Contexts, EPUB eBook

Asian Social Work : Professional Work in National Contexts EPUB

Edited by Ian Shaw, Rosaleen Ow

Part of the Routledge Advances in Social Work series

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Description

The countries of East and Southeast Asia, taken as a whole, display a laboratory of social and political conditions, with individual countries presenting a variety of political, cultural and social characteristics.

Some with one-party state systems, others with stable liberal democracies and yet others with more fragile democratic systems.

As such the region presents a unique opportunity to examine the relationship between diverse national environments and social work education regimes.

In this book, social work educators and theorists from around East and Southeast Asia provide accounts of the social work programs within the higher education systems of their respective countries and compare them to those of their neighbours.

This is the first book to offer a structured account of how social work and social work education have emerged and finds their present place in the historical, economic, political, urban/rural and higher education contexts of Southeast Asia and East Asia.

Experts from the region assess the extent to which these countries’ systems possess a collective coherence, while examining the diversity among them.

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