Challenges for social work education in vietnam voice of social work students
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Challenges of Social Work Education
in Vietnam:
The voice of social work students
Tran Van Kham, PhD
University of Social Sciences
and Humanities-Hanoi, Vietnam
Email:
Vietnam Social Work Education
50 universities/colleges
2014
2010: Action plan to develop social work professionally
2004: BA program approved
Project number 32
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2,340 billion VND
60,000 social workers by 2020 need training
35,000 staff need professional education
Focused groups: older, disabled people, orphan children, drug abused,
etc
Questions
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How students assess the structure of program? The rationality of
structure in different layers?
How students assess the learning materials for social work education?
The quality of lecturers and social work staff?
What are difficulties on doing fieldwork?
What is student’s voice on prospects of Vietnam social work education?
Findings
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Program structure:
– Positive feedbacks on Professional Courses
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Learning materials:
– Positive feedbacks
– Negative feedbacks on Skill Trainings
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Staff/Lecturers
– Well knowledge-based
– Less skill-prepared
Findings
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Prospects of professional social work
– Will be developed if it is changes in program and staff/lecturers/ support
mechanism
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Required changes on social awareness on social work as profession
Long term commitment to social work
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Both those graduate and undergraduate students
Discussions
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Opportunities
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Challenges:
– Collaboration
– Training
– Social awareness of this professional job,
– learning materials,
– practicum places,
– staff and skills on supervisions
– the teaching staff on social work
Conclusion
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Continuing the tasks of increasing social awareness on social work, and
its application, roles on practice
Reviewing and updating the program at all levels
For academic institutions: to make the close collaboration with regional
and international ones
For staff in institutions: Upgrading the knowledge, skills and professions
on social work
Thank you
Tran Van Kham
Vietnam National University-Hanoi,
Founder of Vietnam Social Work Network’s website at
Email:
