地方性知识在农村留守老人社会工作服务中的功能探讨

The Function of Local Knowledge in the Service of Social Work for Rural Left-behind EldeHy

社会工作有效参与农村留守老人关爱服务体系建设与地方性知识功能的发挥密切相关。依据地方性知识理论,农村留守老人社会工作服务可视为以一定知识为理论基础的科学实践活动,这些知识包括普遍性知识和地方性知识、普遍性方法和地方性方法。地方性知识是农村留守老人社会工作发展的重要限制因素,社会工作者需要识别影响农村留守老人社会工作服务的地方性知识,尊重地方性知识的地位和价值,充分发挥地方性知识在服务过程中的理解性功能、操作性功能以及反思性功能。社会工作科学性知识理论和农村地方性知识共为农村留守老人社会工作服务的行动依据,这一行动过程就是我国社会工作本土化科学实践过程的重要组成部分,是我国农村社会工作地方性知识和地方性方法不断生产和辩护的过程。

Effective participation of social work in the care service system for the rural left-behind elderly is closely related to the local knowledge. According to the theory of local knowledge, the social work service of the rural left-behind elderly can be regarded as a scientific practice based on a certain knowledge, which includes general knowledge and local knowledge, general methods and local methods. Local knowledge is an important limiting factor for the development of social work for the elderly in rural areas, and social workers need to recognize the local knowledge that affects the social work services and respect the status and value of local knowledge, giving its full play to the comprehensive, operative and reflective function in the service process. The scientific knowledge theory of social work and the local knowledge of rural areas serve as the basis for the social work of the elderly in rural areas. This action process is an important part of the scientific practice of localization of social work in China. It is the continuous production and defense process of local knowledge and local methods of rural social work in China.