- Title
- Emergence of social work practice in rural China: a way forward?
- Creator
- Meng, Qian; Gray, Mel; Bradt, Lieve; Roets, Griet
- Relation
- International Social Work Vol. 62, Issue 2, p. 933-943
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872818755859
- Publisher
- Sage
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Following massive socioeconomic reforms over the past three decades, social work in the People's Republic of China (hereafter China) has developed at an unprecedented pace. To respond to social issues arising from accelerated economic development, the government has launched a large-scale programme to train a professional social work workforce of 1.45 million by 2020. Social work in mainland China has, and continues, to develop rapidly in major urban centres, while rural areas remain largely neglected. This article describes developmental issues in rural China and argues that social work in rural China requires indigenised knowledge and interventions to address context-specific problems.
- Subject
- China; global definition of social work; indigenisation of social work; social work in rural China; socioeconomic reform; SDG 11; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1445145
- Identifier
- uon:42513
- Identifier
- ISSN:0020-8728
- Language
- eng
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