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22 Int'l Soc. Work 1 (1979)

handle is hein.journals/intsocwk22 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL T HIS issue may well be called the East- West issue because the topics covered deal with problems and developments specific to regions in the East and West. At the same time several papers afford an opportunity to the reader to reflect on the transferability of knowledge and practice from one region to the other. Kendall's paper dwells on the problems of consultation by western educators in Asia and spells out a number of approaches which will bid fair to make for effectiveness and to enhance reciprocity. Gokhale and Sohoni, in a paper which roams widely in the western and eastern world examine and suggest possible new directions for corrections. They end their paper with a set of specific recommendations at the legislative, judicial, educational and administrative realms, and make explicit the philosophy which underlies their recommenda- tions. Roskin's paper deals with evaluative research, an area of considerable interest and import in the United States and other parts of the West. Because of the universality of the problem which he addresses Roskin's suggestions for collaboration between social work researcher, administrator and practi- tioner will be found useful in many ports of the eastern world as well. The same can be said of Haliachmi's paper which deals with 'On the Job Training of Social Workers. While the specific technical approaches the paper suggestes, probably are not readily transferable, the ideas and principles these approaches reflect certainly would seem to be pertinent to social work endeavors in any part of the world where ongoing development and updating know- ledge and skill are viewed as indispensible means for continued professional effective- ness. Fadayomi's paper focuses on a specific situation in Nigeria; namely, preschool care for children of working mothers. The pro- blems of resource adequacy and of family cohesion in the face of changes in economic development would seem to exist also in those parts of Africa where changing social and economic conditions call for an exami- nation of the appropriateness of current or past child care practices. Lee's paper addresses single parenthood, a phenomenon which has begun to appear in any western industrialized society. There- fore his focus on procedures for identifying single parent families is worthy of considera- tion if we are to be able to comprehend and deal with the social and economic as- pects of this phenomenon. Taken as a whole the papers in this issue contain food for thought, specific information and material pertinent to problems and deve- lopments which have a way of moving from one part of the world to another. Werner W. Boehm Editor-in-Chief

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