Asian Social Work: Professional Work in National Contexts

ISBN-13: 9781138611795 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 288 str.

Ian Shaw; Rosaleen Ow

Opis

In this book, social work educators and theorists from around East and Southeast Asia provide accounts of the social work programmes within the higher education systems of their respective countries and compare them to those of their neighbours.

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O autorze

Ian Shaw undertook work on this book while S R Nathan Professor of Social Work at the National University of Singapore. He also is Professor Emeritus at the University of York, England. He was the initiator of the European Conference for Social Work Research, the first chair of the European Social Work Research Association (ESWRA), and a founder editor of the journal Qualitative Social Work. He has authored almost 100 peer reviewed papers, over 20 books, approximately 60 book chapters and various research reports.
 
Rosaleen Ow is currently Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Work, National University of Singapore with a M.Sc. from University College, Cardiff, Wales, and a Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore (NUS). She was a social work practitioner working mainly with children and families with very low income in Singapore and Wales before becoming an academic at the National University of Singapore. Her reserach interests and writing are focused on family and child welfare and the broader theme of social work in cross cultural contexts.