Social Work Education in the Asia-Pacific Region

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This article identifies 5 trends in social work and social work education in the Asia Pacific region: limited role of social work and the challenge it presents, urban focus in a predominantly rural Asia, limited foci of social work education restricted mainly to casework and community work to the neglect of social policy, articulation between levels of practice, and indigenisation of social work education for consistency of relevance to its cultural contexts. Suggestions for development of social work in the region include social work research, regional workshops, joint coursework higher degree programmes, documenting experience of practitioners, encouraging appropriate research higher degrees and research programmes across schools of social work.

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