| his paper, based itself on a method of action research for social change, to overview the practices of Taiwan’s social work professionals. The paper aims to Identify the political process of social work professionalization, with the process of the professionals to secure their professional power through a licensed system, which is created under the cooperation of the Government and the professionals’ organizations, aiming to strengthen their academic and political turfs. On the other hand, to counter this trend of professionalization construction, there is still a group of alternative practice workers constantly looking for a way out for the development of social work practice knowledge for career practitioners, trying to strip away the establishment of the professionality, grounding themselves, and doing solid work, so as to search the path of social reformations. |
