CHECK IT OUT! APASWE No.15 (2011-2013), August 2012

CHECK IT OUT! APASWE No.15 (2011-2013), August 2012

Call for Papers
Internationalization of Social Work Education in Asia
History Review

Asian Center for Welfare in Societies (ACWelS)
Social Work Research Institute
Japan College of Social Work

In Asia, people often say that our social work education is a simple copy of Western social work. A hypothetical conclusion of the recent history review conducted by the APASWE‐related research team was “Dissemination (of Western social work) without Modification.” A hypothesis, of course, may or may not be rejected.

We would like to record the history of the internationalization* of social work education in Asia, or the relation of social work education of each country/region with the outside world,* and also test the above “hypothesis” using such empirical data as below. This would be an excellent opportunity for each country/region, or school, to review and record its own history of the social work education for future development.

The research project has been funded and implemented by Social Work Research Institute Asian Center for Welfare in Society (ACWelS), Japan College of Social Work, and will be cosponsored by Asian and Pacific Association for Social Work Education (APASWE).

The head of the project is Prof. Dr. Tatsuru Akimoto, Director of ACWelS and President of APASWE, and the coordinator is Kana Matsuo, Collaborative Researcher of ACWelS and Assistant to APASWE President.

The project this year is limited in terms of length and time, but is expected hopefully to grow to the second stage, if successfully completed.

Research Schedule and Procedure

1. Application: Fill out the attached application (proposal) form and send it to Prof. Dr. Tatsuru Akimoto (akimoto@jcsw.ac.jp) , Director of ACWelS. The deadline is September 15, 2012. The research project planning team will review it, and inform of the official acceptance by September 30, 2012.
Three or four applications will be selected on a basis of the quality of proposal. The geographic distributions will be considered. All applicants must be 2012 APASWE membership‐holders.

2. Implementation of the research: September 15, 2012‐January 31, 2013 

Submission of paper: The deadline for the full paper (more than 72,000 words (without counting Tables and Figures) in English) is the end of January 2013.

3. Publication: all the accepted full papers will be published in hard copy to distribute to all APASWE member schools, and released on the website by the end of March 2013.

4. Honorarium: ¥75,000 (Approximately US$1,000 as of 15 Aug. 2012) will be paid after the acceptance of the final paper.

For more details or inquiries, please feel free to contact with Kana Matsuo, Coordinator, at kwani215@gmail.com.

Application (Proposal) Form for
Internationalization of Social Work Education in Asia
History Review Research

Asian Center for Welfare in Societies (ACWelS)
Social Work Research Institute, Japan College of Social Work