Social Work as a Research-Based Profession： Opportunities, Prerequisites and Restrictions

The concept of research-based social work is introduced and discussed from the point of view of preconditions for its realization. Attention is paid both to the academic research of social work and to opportunities for developing a knowledge-producing social work practice. Both of these are seen as essential elements of a research-based profession. On the one hand, the academic research is necessary for development of social work as a research-based professional system, and on the other hand, a knowledge-producing practice, conducted by research-oriented practitioners, can only be realized within such a system. Historically, social work has been partly developed as a knowledge-applying instead of a knowledge-producing profession, although the central founding pioneers emphasized the importance of an own-knowledge basis and theory formation, as well as the idea of knowledge-producing practice based on a corresponding professional identity. The future of social work as a professional system in modern society may depend decisively on how it develops a research-based professional identity, not only in the sense of academic research but also through practitioners with research orientation. These are practitioners who would be capable of research-based working in terms of creative knowledge production, thus of developing social work as a credible research-based profession. This can be created only through education in which the development of necessary professional skills is linked to advanced academic meta-skills. There are good reasons to suspect that a three-year education is too short for this.

The three problems in the development of the social work profession and its response research

Social Work Education is imposing special education training for individuals by specialized organizations, institutions or professional, to make them meet the practical requirements of the social work profession in terms of expertise, skills, and professional ethics as well as practical experience, to complete individual professional socialization process. As the train qualified social workers as well as an important foundation for the development of professional knowledge and practice patterns and key links, Social Work Education must continue to respond to the international trend of the social work professional development, meanwhile it should base on the local characteristics in national conditions, in province situation and even the city situation, to build a large social work personnel, and ultimately serve for the development and stability of the local society.

论敬业精神

敬业爱岗是社会主义职业道德的第一规范和核心价值观念。敬业是一种可贵的职业道德精神和品质,是人们对自己所从事职业的高度忠诚、热爱和特别负责的综合化表现,聚集了人们对职业的忠诚、敬重、热爱、关心等情感及愿为职业而献身的行为信念。加强职业道德建设,最重要的莫过于培养人们的敬业精神。只有敬业精神的挺立才能从内在源头上支撑起职业道德的大厦。

Rules Governing Female Professionals——Symposium sponsored by the Working Committee of Professional Women, under the China Personnel Research Association

THE number of nongovernmental women’s organizations in China has increased dramatically in recent years. The long list includes friendship organizations of women in the same trade and a number of academic research associations. The Working Committee on Female Professionals, under China Personnel Research Association represents on the major national academic women’s societies. The association’s goal is to study problems confronting female professional women, establishing