扩散论:大陆社会工作教育研究的新范式

Diffusion theory:A new framework for the research on social work education in Chinese mainland

以往研究大陆与西方社会工作教育关系时,主要有"全盘西化"、"西为中用"、"本土化"和"全球化"等视角,但事实上这几种视角都有其局限性,而"扩散论"能提供另一种新的范式选择,这种范式对于第三世界社会工作专业教育的研究具有特别重要的意义。本着大陆社会工作教育不仅具备"初级扩散"的特征,而且也具备"次级扩散"和"混合扩散"特征的观点,论文指出,大陆社会工作教育在经历"典范转移"过程之后,应逐步迈向"去中心化"、"多元性"、"主体性"、"在地性"和"本土性",尤其要关注"自主性"和"扎根化"这两个基本议题。

Studies in the past on the relationship between the social work education in western countries and Chinese mainland is mainly from such perspectives as westernization, learning from western countries, indigenization and globalization. As a matter of fact, the research from these perspectives has their own limitations. On the contrary, the diffusion theory offers us a new framework which is of great significance in studying social work educa- tion in countries in the third world. Social work education in Chinese mainland is characterized by primary, sub and mixed diffusion. Based on this, the article maintains that social work education in Chinese mainland is gradually developing along the road of non-centralization, diversity, entity, localization and indigenization with emphasis on the entity and indigenization.