Sowing Seeds Of Social Work: An Action Research Of Constructing Urban Community Social Work Talent Ranks In Empowerment Perspective

In recent years, the professional social work is developing rapidly in China, a large number of social work institutions sprang up all over the country, but there are quite a few of the second line, third line cities began to try to through the government purchase services in the form of the social work program, and so as to promote the development of local social work. As a result, social demand for social workers increased significantly. But been lacking of their own professional social work education resources, and social work graduates turnover rate is higher, these areas are hard to attract the social work professional graduate and professional background of organization. Introducing external resources project with a local social work has become a necessary choice. As in all over the country sow the seeds of "social work", professional social work for "gardener" to local talent cultivation and specialized process of social work.This paper is presented Flower-town in S province carried out a participatory action research for cultivating talents of local social work. Implement empower in activity and research perspective, local social workers as action and research partners, focus on the construction of local social work capacity and mastery of its professional idea, knowledge and skills, in subtle ways to planting the seed of a social worker communal practice situation, carefully nurtured and make it begins to take root, sprout, grow, and thus promote the foothold and development of social work services in the community. In "Seeding" process, not only is the process of local social work specialization, is also the process of localization and professional social work professionalization.Through the training process of "deep description", this article is able to show a development and social work practice real pieces of talent training, to explore the role of professional social workers in training practice and role, more professional social work education and the similarities and differences between local social worker training, summed up the empower perspective of urban community social work personnel training mode: "demonstration, imitation, internalization, to create". Through the "seed", the process of local social workers to accumulate their own life vigor, germination and growth, which also suffered from environment and their own "wind and rain baptism, but through constant empower of professional social workers and local social workers empower themselves, this little seed to grow up in the action process, become the backbone of grassroots community social work professional service.