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Book Reviews Japan's 32 schools of social work present a picture Glimpses of Social Work in Japan, Dorothy of considerable diversity in both the content of Dessau (ed.), Social Workers' International education and in the standards of its implementation. Club of Japan, Kyoto, 2nd edn., 1968, pp. 260. The y share with all such schools the difficulty of establishing satisfactory standards in fieldwork edu­ Social workers throughout the world are familiar cation. Most significantly, this difficulty exists even with the struggle to establish a clear understanding though many of the country's social workers are of professional social work activity. N o country is grossly under-employed. One wonders whether the yet free from the need to develop general recog­ pressure of work which is so often claimed as a nition of the importance of social work education major reason for inadequate student supervision in as a prerequisite to employment in the professional other countries is an important factor in these tasks of social welfare. However, in Japan, this is countries, or whether it provides an easy rationali­ but one of the many struggles facing the profession. zation to hide the real problems? The extremes of social and cultural values which co-exist in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Social Work Taylor & Francis

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Australian Journal of Social Work , Volume 22 (3): 2 – Sep 1, 1969
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Japan's 32 schools of social work present a picture Glimpses of Social Work in Japan, Dorothy of considerable diversity in both the content of Dessau (ed.), Social Workers' International education and in the standards of its implementation. Club of Japan, Kyoto, 2nd edn., 1968, pp. 260. The y share with all such schools the difficulty of establishing satisfactory standards in fieldwork edu­ Social workers throughout the world are familiar cation. Most significantly, this...
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Japan's 32 schools of social work present a picture Glimpses of Social Work in Japan, Dorothy of considerable diversity in both the content of Dessau (ed.), Social Workers' International education and in the standards of its implementation. Club of Japan, Kyoto, 2nd edn., 1968, pp. 260. The y share with all such schools the difficulty of establishing satisfactory standards in fieldwork edu­ Social workers throughout the world are familiar cation. Most significantly, this difficulty exists even with the struggle to establish a clear understanding though many of the country's social workers are of professional social work activity. N o country is grossly under-employed. One wonders whether the yet free from the need to develop general recog­ pressure of work which is so often claimed as a nition of the importance of social work education major reason for inadequate student supervision in as a prerequisite to employment in the professional other countries is an important factor in these tasks of social welfare. However, in Japan, this is countries, or whether it provides an easy rationali­ but one of the many struggles facing the profession. zation to hide the real problems? The extremes of social and cultural values which co-exist in

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Published: Sep 1, 1969

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