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2018 |
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2019 |
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abstract |
Exploring and in turn developing professional identity is a challenge faced by social
work programmes, nationally and internationally. This paper developed from the authors’
shared research interest in how social workers and students of social work develop
and express their professional identities. We report findings from a workshop designed
to explore how a group of social workers from different countries conceptualised social
work identity, including the effects of transnational and cultural contexts. Our starting
point drew on theoretical concepts developed in Wiles’s research, in which the term
professional identity is used to convey multiple meaning, and the method developed
in Vicary’s research which uses drawing to elicit data. We found that a collective
identity is shared across national boundaries albeit, and ironically, that this shared
identity has components that are not cohesive and are continually being redefined.
In the participants’ own words, the notion of social work identity is always just
out of reach conceptually, or ‘over the horizon’. Tensions in identity were also revealed,
alongside a sense of passion or deep commitment. These findings complement and add
to the existing literature on exploring and developing professional identity in social
work. |
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1 |
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peerReviewed |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/721265 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/721266 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/721272 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/721273 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/721274 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/721275 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/722552 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/797265 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/797266 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/797268 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/797269 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/797270 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/797271 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/797272 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/797273 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/797441 |
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volume |
38 |
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AcademicArticle |
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type |
Article |
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label |
Wiles, Fran and Vicary, Sarah (2018). Picturing social work, puzzles and passion:
exploring and developing transnational professional identities. Social Work Education;
The International Journal (Early Access). |
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label |
Wiles, Fran and Vicary, Sarah (2019). Picturing social work, puzzles and passion:
exploring and developing transnational professional identities. Social Work Education,
38(1) pp. 47–62. |
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label |
Wiles, Fran and Vicary, Sarah (2019). Picturing social work, puzzles and passion:
exploring and developing transnational professional identities. Social Work Education,
38(1) pp. 47–62. |
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Title |
Picturing social work, puzzles and passion: exploring and developing transnational
professional identities |
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oro |