Research on the Pathways of School Social Workers Entering the Filed from the Perspective Relationism
Whether social workers can successfully enter the field can influence the development of social work profession.Existing research on entry often adopts a holistic perspective,making it difficult to explain the effects of multiple relationships in the field on social workers'actions.This research tried to break the holistic approaches by explaining the issue of social workers'entry from the perspective of"relationism".The research found that the school field can be divided into three parts:management field,the business field,and the interpersonal field.Social workers need to find the sub-fields in the field and examines the sequency of entry into different subfields,as well as the pathways and methods of entering these subfields.First,social workers need to identify the different subfields and their relationships within the practice field and choose the subfield to enter based on the capital they have.Further,in the action in different sub-fields,social workers should find the rules of the play there,and pay the entry fee through adjusting their actions.Additionally,through the play in each subfield,social workers may gain new capital,which will help social workers identify and enter additional sub-fields.