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Professionalization of SocialWork in China: The ShenzhenModel
 Joe Leung
 
Introduction
 Thriving Development in social work education – 211 schools and 10,000 graduates each year
Outstanding issues – under-developed curriculum and lack social work social positions/ jobs
2006 Party document (under Party Construction) to develop a strong social work workforce – a Partycampaign
Shenzhen was chosen as the national key pilot city to
 
develop social work positions (2008), withthe strong back up from Hong Kong (benchmarking Hong Kong as the model).
What is the Shenzhen model? What happens? Implications for future? Role of Hong Kong?
 
Debates
International Journal of Social Welfare
 2007-08:
Global standards on social workeducation and social work practice canor cannot be applied to China(Hutchings and Taylor, 2007, 2008; Jia,2007; Leung, 2007; Cheng, 2008; Gray,2008). Such debate centres on the roleof Western-based social work valuesand knowledge in facilitating thedevelopment of the discipline in China.
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