01677cam a2200169 i 4500 37391 37391 9781138611795 361.3095 ASI- Asian social work : professional work in national contexts / edited by Ian Shaw and Rosaleen Ow. New York: Routledge, c2020. xv, 264 pages : :ill. Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-258) and index. 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. English Social service Asia. Social service. ddc BK 0 0 0 0 NASSDOC NASSDOC 2023-03-16 Overseas 0.00 0 361.3095 ASI- 52973 2023-04-18 00:00:00 0.00 2023-04-18 BK