Towards Establishing School Social Work in Malaysia

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper calls for the introduction of school social work in Malaysia. Many industrialized countrieshave introduced school social work, partly because teachers are not able to tackle students’personal and social problems. Teachers are burdened with teaching tasks and are not trained tohandle social problems. The introduction of school social work in these developed countries was anadmission that there was only so much teachers could do in addressing the problems of school children.
Even with school counselors, the problems have not decreased. Many parents in Malaysiaperceive schools to be incapable of providing sufficient education to excel in the major exams. Theexistence of many private tuition institutions and private teachers is a testimony to that perception.
If society has already deemed these teachers to be incapable of providing quality education, toexpect them to look after students’ social problems is presumptuous on society’s part. The need forschool personnel who understand the social ills of the community is urgently needed, and it is thecontention of this paper that school social workers are best equipped for that responsibility.

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