Self-narrative study - A journey of “Dream Seeking” by a special social worker

• Main Authors: Lee, Chi-Shing Edward, 李志成
• Other Authors: Wang, Tsen-Yung Frank
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45btg6

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 社會工作研究所 === 106 === Abstract I am in a mess while considering to adopt what type of concept, style or methodology to draft this paper before the acknowledgment of self-narrative . I have understandings in quantitative survey in the studies of social science; however, it is new experience concerning the qualitative survey method. Therefore it is not only a challenge to adopt the self-narrative as the paper’s methodology, but also an opportunity of learning which is the main objective of my post-graduate studies in Taiwan. Leaving the comfort zone denote I have to consider that who and what to be the objective and target of the studies. Via the thinking process I finally adopt “my” story and “I am a social worker” as the studies, starting from “why do I select social worker as my career” to “how to be a children and youth social worker”, then “what is the encounter to participate in the political field” and lastly “ how to seek for my dream and make dream comes true”. Experiencing repeatedly thinking my life span in order to explore what am I under the framework of whether my self-awareness as being an “alien” in the eyes of my peers, I am released from the self-conflict and contradiction. When I am writing the self-narrative of my life, I am also opening the boxes of different time, difference space as to transcend the history and observe myself in multi-perspective. Penetrating the interaction and inter-effect among self-conscious, social context, social institutions is the factual of my life. Once “I” as the subject to be oppressed in the education institution and the tradition Chinese farmer family; again, “I” as the subject to be struggled in the territory education institution and the professional code of social work. Entirely, following the historical development of transformation to be a multi-role social work with the political role as a councilor. It is not difficulty to be lost in the regime of professional practice and forget to remain the true and original aspiration of being a social worker via obedience and baptism in the institution of social work profession. Finally, I write my story so as to understand, to seek and to explore my true self and the true and original aspiration and achieve the self-affirmation as a result of understanding of different models of social work service as at the social institutions. I may be release for the unpleasure and painful experience with struggling in both my mind and behavior. I have to obtain crystal understanding to the nature of myself and the role play in the social work service by the way to affirm my value to be a social worker.