Mission Possible; Building Social Work Professional Identity through Fieldwork Placements in China

Social work training programmes in China have increased rapidly in the last decade. Their growth mirrors the increase in social problems that China faces as its economy develops and the disparities between rich and poor multiply. There is little recognition either by the government or citizens of the profession of social work and so no clear idea of what it might achieve. Thus the development of social work in China faces many difficulties among which is a dearth of professionally qualified social workers to teach, and to supervise fieldwork placements. This paper discusses a collaborative MSW programme between the University of Hong Kong and Fudan University in Shanghai. It analyses the growth in professional identity of nine students in the programme undertaking their first supervised fieldwork placement in Shanghai. They were asked to write 500‐word statements before and after their placement about their understanding of the role of social workers and their sense of professional identity. An analysis of these statements forms the basis of this article. The article addresses the issue of whether the construction of a professional identity will rest with members of the embryonic profession or with government bureaucrats largely concerned with the maintenance of stability and the management of social change.     

A Story of Love and Debt: The Give and the Take of Linguistic Fieldwork

When a linguist goes into the field to work with a previously undescribed language, they aim at discovering what the language is like. What we linguists take away is knowledge—reflected in our publications, presentations and scholarly reputation. What we also get is the feeling of love for the languages and for the people, and the sense of indebtedness for what we learn and get given. The language communities expect us to produce dictionaries, story books and pedagogical materials. Academia and the communities place different expectations on linguists engaged in fieldwork research. I examine these, using the example of my own fieldwork with the Tariana, an Arawak-speaking group in the multilingual area of the Vaupés River Basin in north-west Amazonia (Brazil). The focus of the paper is a pedagogical workshop jointly run by myself with my Tariana-speaking adopted family.     

Dilemma of a Native: On Location,Authenticity, and Reflexivity

With the focus on native/halfie anthropology, I address in this paper three issues of location, authenticity, and reflexivity of the anthropologist in close connection to the reality of uneven distribution of power inside academe among scholars and institutions, and, above all, anthropologists, including native anthropologists. I emphasise that interaction between the field and the ethnographer never closes even after the fieldwork is over; the issue of intersubjectivity is not confined in writing one book, but permeates an ethnographer's lifelong career; the power relation is no longer divided only between the field and the home institution, but also divided within so-called Western academe. Through these discussions, I try to draw our attention to multiple axes of tension in the production of anthropological knowledge.     

何处是田野?——人类学田野工作的若干反思

田野工作对于人类学来说已经超出了研究方法甚至方法论的意义。许多人类学家认为田野工作是人类学区别于其他人文社会学科的唯一特征。本文将人类学田野工作放在西方整个现代社会科学发展的过程来考察,提出对人文世界的关注、强调文化差异性等,是田野工作的选择标准和取向。     

西北杂居村落民族关系的个案分析——以加入村为例

在现代化进程中,各民族的政治、经济、社会和文化都在急剧变迁。在这样的背景下,多民族杂居地区的民族认同和民族关系也呈现出一些新特点,如民族边界随着民族间的频繁交往而更趋明显。笔者深入实地,对循化撒拉族自治县积石镇加入村撒拉族、藏族、汉族、回族等民族的关系状况作了调查,分析了现今多元民族类型、多种民族文化共存地区的民族关系状况。     

田野工作中的三种考验探析

田野工作中可能经历3种考验，其中包括：来自人类学界长期求索的问题，即我们到底有否可能真实、全面地反映社会——文化的现实和真相的困扰的考验；来自人类学职业道德规范、因文化差异而需要的心理调适、文化沟通的考验；来自对精力、体力的检验的痛苦考验。     

从布迪厄实践理论看人类学田野工作

布迪厄在批判客观主义和主观主义知识生产模式的过程中,为了达到科学的知识生产,创立了实践理论。实践理论通过惯习、场域、策略等概念超越了主客观的对立,发现了实践活动生产的逻辑。关注与理论逻辑完全不同的实践逻辑,对我们把握科学的实践具有方法论意义。实践理论中的“反思”在确立与研究对象之间的科学关系方面,成为指引人类学田野工作的强有力的方法论工具。     

高职社会工作专业实习教育初探——论自我增权取向的社工专业实习模式

社会工作以实务训练为教学导向,强调理论体系与实践体系的有机融合。本文从当前社会工作实践发展与教育现状出发,对当下高职社会工作专业实习模式进行反恩,试图建构以自我增权为总体设计理念,以优势视角为必要条件,以渐进式分段实践为实施框架,强调SMART指导策略和体验式教育的专业实习模式,以期建立符合本土需求的高职社会工作专业实习模式。     

大散居与小聚居情境中的寺坊:陕西省西乡县伊斯兰教现状调查

本文通过田野调查,系统梳理了西乡县的回族人口及分布、伊斯兰教活动场所、伊斯兰教育、宗教管理和寺坊情况,主要讨论了西乡县伊斯兰教的派别特征、宗教互动、宗教仪式、婚姻问题、宗教教育、民族涵化、宗教管理、宗教资源配置等问题,认为处于川陕交接地带的西乡县散杂居回族社区相较于西北其他省区的回族社区是一种陌生的存在。     

Direct,Facilitate, Enable—the Juxtaposition of the Duty of Care and the Duty of Disclosure in Social Work Field Education

This article examines the significance of field education placements within contemporary social work field education, particularly considering the increasingly complex issues of the duty of care (to student, agency and field teacher) and the duty to disclose (to student, to field teacher) which schools of social work must negotiate. The dilemmas facing schools and field educators, and the steps taken to resolve them at the University of Melbourne (Australia), are considered to highlight the ongoing liability and accountability difficulties which continue to face social work education.