“Deep Water must be Crossed with the Clothes on, Shallow Water may be Crossed with the Clothes Held up”—Self-Transformation of a Community Actor through Community Participation.

• Main Authors: Tsai,Hung-Jui, 蔡弘睿
• Other Authors: CHANG, CHIN-FEN.
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05328784530336015416

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 社會工作學系 === 100 === This study described how a community actor with multiple identities entered Taishan District of New Taipei City via various approaches and community programs and interacted with community organizations and residents during 2008~2012. Through a long stay in this community, the researcher (actor) found the community organizations’ and residents’ perception of my role, power, attitude and trust for me changed along the four stages of my actions (latency, attachment, rooting, and development), further affecting internal members’ and the actor’s motivation and intention to establish cooperative relationship. With the situation, the actor had to constantly switch his identity between being an insider and being an outsider to accomplish certain tasks. The purpose of this study was to focus on changes in status, power, relationship, and actions to investigate how a student with a social work background and playing the role of a community actor saw the transformation and development of his relations with the action field and constantly adjusted my plan and attitude to cope with varying situations. This study attempted to reveal the actor’s belief that “Deep water must be crossed with the clothes on; shallow water may be crossed with the clothes held up”. As “Practice comes before theory, and experiences comes from practice”, this study was concerned with issues that the researcher has encountered in numerous actions and most of which were closely related to local residents. Therefore, this study employed action research approach, with the methodology based on in-depth interview, focus-group interview, participant observation, literature analysis, and triangulation. In addition to personal views, the researcher also expressed the voice of other members in the action field to truthfully present my interactions with the community. In addition, the researcher also explored inner voices in himself through constant self-reflection and introspection. By looking into personal action footprint, reactions to community life, and experiences gained from social work, the researcher managed to highlight his growth, transformation, and adjustment in the cycle of “planning, action, observation, and reflection”.