Participatory action research: Promoting partnership between a social work team and mothers of hemophiliac children
This article focuses on a participatory action research project as a process for improving social work practice and empowering mothers with hemophiliac children. Four stages of the action research are presented in this study. The research played a critical consciousness-raising and capacity-building role facilitating the mothers’ transformation from passive victims to active subjects. In addition, […]
Read More...Building a mutual-help community: Young social work teachers’ self-rescue action
The higher education system has marginalized the young educators. Young educators in the field of social work are in a much worse situation. Research indicates that young social work educators are facing three types of significant challenges: lacking teaching experience and social support; lacking academic research skills and facing great pressure from getting paper published; […]
Read More...The Contributions of older people. Placemaking in post-disaster Sichuan, China
 The effect of a country’s aging population trend is not usually represented positively. For example, it is well known that China’s population is aging, more rapidly than almost any country in recent history. In 2018, 1.67 billion or 11.9% of the population was aged 65 or older (China Daily, 2019). This has led to the […]
Read More...Implementing green education of urban families: An action research project in Beijing, China
Crises in food safety have attracted increased public attention in many countries, typically posing serious threats to public health and causing potential economic, social, and environmental damage. This research applied a green social work framework and developed a family-based and child-centered education model in a Chinese urban context. The green educational model engaged practitioners in […]
Read More...Action/Practice Research in China
In this special issue, we called for articles on social work action/practice research from Greater China, i.e., Chinese societies located in the different parts of the world. Unexpectedly, all the articles we received originate from the Chinese mainland. While offering a limited vantage, nevertheless, the selected articles offer and reveal, the efforts of Chinese social […]
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