By Tony Tripodi
With the consistent alternate of foreign info now an enduring situation on the planet, social paintings students and scholars needs to be delicate to the necessity for wisdom sharing among international locations in addition to to matters concerned about acquiring and using foreign wisdom. but formerly, no booklet has juxtaposed those becoming streams of emphasis. during this essentially written quantity, Tony Tripodi and Miriam Potocky-Tripodi fill that hole, featuring readers with the numerous clients and nice power for overseas social paintings study. The authors determine 3 discrete different types of study supra-national, intra-national, and trans-national and discover a wealth of matters and examples inside of every one. The easy-to-follow layout is helping readers the best way to outline and distinguish each one type of study, then presents genuine functions of all 3. Examples draw on examine from across the world, and diversity from microcredit courses in India to migrant reduction in Nicaragua to adoptees in Romania. those designated positive factors make it a fantastic sequel to simple examine texts in social paintings and complement to texts on foreign social paintings, but in addition an enticing addition to any college researchers bookshelf.
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If there is cross-validating evidence, the researcher might employ instruments used in Canada for the research. In contrast, with no cross-validating evidence, the researcher might use the Canadian instrument with caution, seeking to provide some cross-validating evidence within the study and possibly providing other sets of questions that seem more appropriate to respondents in Boston. ” The important consideration here is that the researcher is careful to discern whether slight differences in spelling, vocabulary, and phraseology might lead to different responses.
For example, a program intervention for teaching principles of health care may have been successful in one country, say, China. If the program intervention can be replicated in another country and evaluated with respect to whether program recipients can learn and apply principles of health care, then it can be inferred that the hypothesis is generalizable and subject to research in another country. General guidelines for determining the extent of generalizability of a hypothesis are as follows (Tripodi, 1983, p.
We indicated how social workers are involved in international activities and affected by globalization even if they practice only within their countries; and we presented a definition and typology of international social work 28 International Social Work Research research, indicating how such research can be distinguished from national research. National research is directed at native populations within a country and does not use literature from other countries to formulate the research problem, nor does it draw implications for two or more countries.