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Balgopal, P.R. Venkataraman, Jayashree 2011-05-07T14:10:31Z 2011-05-07T14:10:31Z 10000-01-01 1996 The education given to social work students in developing countries has been the subject of much recent study. In the earlier half of this century, professional social work was transferred from the developed world to developing countries. Much of this technology transfer was based on the belief that social work had a universally relevant methodology and an international professional identity. The consequences of this transfer are many. It has caused conflict and confusion in issues of social work practice in countries like India, Taiwan, China, and the Philippines, to name a few. In response to these conflicts social work educators have argued for the need to take into account the indigenous elements of the social, cultural, economic, and political aspects of the country for relevant social work education and training. "This piece of research examines the process of indigenization of an American model of alcoholism treatment to the socio-cultural context of an Indian setting. By analyzing the history of technology transfer in India and the cultural issues which influence the lives of the people, the researcher looks at the goodness-of-fit between Western knowledge and Indian social work practice. Through focus groups and interviews with social workers in India and the United States the researcher tries to capture the process by which social work becomes ""home-made"" in India. This project reiterates the need to indigenize social work knowledge, and also emphasizes that it is essential to tap into practitioners' practice wisdom for knowledge building in social work." Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T14:10:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9702701.pdf: 9827945 bytes, checksum: 2894d561c13fbb5a17293f82024ed8dc (MD5) Previous issue date: 1996 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T15:03:47Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:30:25-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only 9780591088878 AAI9702701 (UMI)AAI9702701 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/23336 eng Copyright 1996 Venkataraman, Jayashree Social Work Health Sciences, Public Health Indigenization process of alcoholism treatment from the American to the Indian context text Social Work Social Work University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.