Challenges in Imparting Social Work Education in India – An Overview

Abstract

Education is one of the dominant sectors of the Economy but my in term of enrolment of students in India that too in social work profession. Social work has evolved as professional activity and no longer as a soc3.al service. It has become a proactive, preventive and rehabilitative measure to tackle problems in the society scientifically. In India Social work Education owe its origin to short-term training course in the year 1936 with the start of Sir Dorabji Tata Graduate school of Social work presently known as Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Gradually this education raised to graduate, Post graduate and research level and acquired  a professional status. The university Grant commission set first review committee in 1960 and second review committee in 1975 to set, to promote and to maintain standards to social work education to be at par with training, research and practices. Many institutions were setup all over India to impart social work education but still social work is identified with the philanthropic and social reform movements considered as voluntary service. The lack of indigenous base has resulted in a failure to promote firm commitments on the part of both public and private social service in the use of professional social work. Keeping in view all realities, an attempt has been made to project the major challenges faced by social work education in India to improve the standards and enhance recognition to the profession.

Keywords: Social work Education, Profession, Challenges.