Is Social Work Really Being Recognized? Problems with Social Work Employment Opportunities in Mainland China

被引：23

作者：

Wu, Shiyou ^{[1
]}

Huang, Hui ^{[2
]}

Sun, Fei ^{[3
]}

An, Qiuling ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Univ N Carolina, Sch Social Work, Chapel Hill, NC USA

[2] Florida Int Univ, Coll Publ Hlth & Social Work, Miami, FL 33199 USA

[3] Arizona State Univ, Sch Social Work, Phoenix, AZ USA

[4] East China Normal Univ, Sch Social Dev, Shanghai, Peoples R China

来源：

SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION | 2016年 / 35卷 / 02期

关键词：

Employment; social work jobs; social work profession; China; professionalization;

D O I：

10.1080/02615479.2015.1136614

中图分类号：

G40 [教育学];

学科分类号：

040101 ; 120403 ;

摘要：

Since social work education was reintroduced in Chinese universities in the 1980s, there are 303 bachelor of social work programs and 62 master of social work programs. Yet, the development of social work positions has lagged behind. This study aimed to study the current development of social work employment opportunities in Mainland China through an empirical lens. Data on social work positions were collected from three employment websites over a 30-day period. Data on 248 social work job postings were analyzed using content analysis and ArcGIS spatial distribution analysis. We identified three problems in the current development of social work profession in China: inconsistency between government policy, social work education, and available jobs; geographic disparities of the distribution of social work jobs; and mismatch between social work education and social work employment opportunities. We provided implications to address each problem.

引用

页码：186 / 203

页数：18

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