探寻中国社会工作的历史线索和历史品格——兼评《中国社会工作史简明教程》一书

Exploration on the Historical Clues and Historical Character of Chinese Social Work:Comment on the Book of A Brief History of Social Work in China

中国社会工作有其独特的发展历史和时代脉络。探寻中国社会工作的历史线索和历史品格,是新时代中国社会工作发展和建设的一个重要路径。它既有利于增强理论自觉,促进中国社会工作本土化进程,有效构建具有“中国气派”的学科体系,也有利于吸收历史经验和教训,为社会建设提供“历史方案”,有效推动国家治理体系的创新和发展。《中国社会工作史简明教程》的出版,将中国社会工作史研究推向了新的高潮,弥补了中国社会工作史研究在教材方面的空白,重新将人们的视野带回到“历史脉络”。因此,应当明确中国社会工作史研究的学科地位,加强对中国社会工作本土概念体系的建构和研究,探索中国社会工作史研究的总体性视角和跨学科研究路径,防范中国社会工作史研究可能存在的风险。

Chinese social work has a unique history of development and the context of the times.Exploring the historical clues and historical character of Chinese social work is an important path for the development of Chinese social work in the new era.It is not only conducive to enhancing theoretical consciousness,promoting localization process,effectively constructing a disciplinary system with“Chinese style”,but also can facilitate the absorption of historical experience,provide a“historical plan”for social construction,and effectively promote the innovation and development of the national governance system.The publication of A Brief History of Social Work in China has pushed the study of Chinese social work history to a new climax,made up for the gap in the study of Chinese social work history,and brought people’s vision back to the“historical context.”Therefore,it is necessary to clarify its status of the discipline,strengthen the construction of its local conceptual system,explore its overall perspective and interdisciplinary research path,and guard against possible risks for its research.