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Partnership in Social Work Education Along the New Silk Road: Towards a Transformative Cultural Inclusion Model

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We live in a world of disruption aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In view of the highly divisive global discourse, we envision a different way of regional and international partnership in social work education and practice through our proactive partnership, to build hope and transformation. Social work educators from the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong SAR, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Israel, and Vietnam, who have developed partnerships with counterparts in the countries along the New Silk Road, have come together to reflect on their partnership experiences, having developed the “Transformative Cultural Inclusion Model” consisting of four essential pillars: (1) equal partnership, (2) cultural inclusion, (3) capacity-building, and (4) social solidarity. Social work is a catalyst for social change and development, and we hope that the model can provide insights and principles to guide future development of regional and international partnerships. This will, in turn, develop context-specific authentic social work theories and practice by partnering together, engaging in participatory practice research, and making positive changes through education, research, and action with regional, international, and local partners.

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  1. 1.

    Hong Kong SAR refers to the Hong Kong Special Administration Region. Hong Kong is an SAR of China governed under the “one country two systems” arrangement.

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    The countries/regions are listed in alphabetical order.

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    The three global social work organizations are the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW), and International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW).

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    First Theme 2020–2022, “Ubuntu: Strengthening Social Solidarity and Global Connectedness”. IASSW, ICSW and IFSW.

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  1. Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong

    Angelina Yuen-Tsang & Benjamin H. B. Ku

  2. Department of Sociology and Social Work, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

    Gulmira Abdiraiymova

  3. Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

    In Young Han

  4. The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

    Mona Khoury-Kassabri

  5. University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam

    Lan Nguyen

  6. China Association of Social Work Education, Department of Sociology, Peking University, Bei**g, China

    Fengzhi Ma

  7. Department of Sociology and Social Work for Science and International Relations, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

    Sabira Serikzhanova

  8. MSW Program, Nan**g University of Science and Technology, Nan**g, China

    Li Shen

  9. School of Social Work, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

    Roni Strier

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Yuen-Tsang, A. et al. (2022). Partnership in Social Work Education Along the New Silk Road: Towards a Transformative Cultural Inclusion Model. In: Tan, N.T., Shajahan, P. (eds) Remaking Social Work for the New Global Era. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08352-5_7

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