碩士 / 長榮大學 / 社會工作學系(所) / 105 / Embarking on the journey of social work is an unscripted story in my life. I had worked in corporations for years, and changed career to non-profit organization after a car accident. Because of Typhoon Morakot in 2009, I was exposed to community development, and participated in a government-funded training project of “rebuilding community social work profession from the bottom up” by enrolling myself in the accelerated social work program.
During the first phase of internship, my classmate(s) and I encountered some challenge as students of the accelerated program. My understanding of justice and diversity promoted by social work in a workplace was put into question. It was felt that the field of social work shared similar mainstream values where social status and background were important, students from accelerated program were viewed as the second class social workers and our capability was being doubted.
The dissertation is focused on self as a social worker from the accelerated program, as a community worker and as a faith-based social worker, using self-narrative to describe my experiences of social work journey. Narrative is not only about expressing my own personal story, it is also to understand the context of social work development, to challenge the myths of social work professional structure and the core of social work establishment through analysis, it also raises the issue that practice wisdom tends to be left out in the development of social work knowledge and theory.
The dissertation ends with self-identification and the values of social work that is centered on “individual, letting go of prejudice, bias and the mainstream frame of reference, becoming a person with a heart, being more harmonious with self, other and environment,expecting myself to be a tolerant and open-minded helping professional, like an ocean that contains all rivers.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/105CJU05201001 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Ling-Hua Kan, 甘玲華 |
| Contributors | Lu-Yi Hsieh, 謝祿宜 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 143 |
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