1st Edition
Fieldwork Training in Social Work
List of illustrations
Notes of contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Procedural aspects of fieldwork
POONAM GULALIA
2 Orientation programme to fieldwork: relevance and modalities
ARCHANA KAUSHIK
3 Fieldwork report: a pragmatic exercise
SHEEBA JOSEPH
4 Transformative learning in social work education in India: role of social work camps
RAMESH B
5 Essential guidelines for successful fieldwork supervision
AKILESWARI S
6 Essential guidelines and techniques for assessment and evaluation in fieldwork
NITA KUMARI
7 Contemporary field-level needs and essential strategies in social work practicum
ASOK KUMAR SARKAR AND INDRANIL SARKAR
8 Strengthening ‘field’ in field education: structural and functional issues in South Asian social work
BALA RAJU NIKKU, BISHNU MOHAN DASH, AND ZIA ULLAH AKHUNZADA
9 Eight decades of fieldwork training in India: identifying the gaps and missing links
SANJOY ROY AND BISHNU MOHAN DASH
10 Learning social work practice skills: reflections from communities, NGOs, and universities
SWAPAN GARAIN
11 Non-institutional and community-based field placement in social work: experiments with inquiry-based learning and participatory action research
BIPIN JOJO AND RONALD YESUDHAS
12 Developing social work practice theories: some alternative ideas and approaches
INDRAJIT GOSWAMI
13 Essential skills for fieldwork practice in social work
SAYANTANI GUIN
14 Using the grounded theory approach in fieldwork education in India
BINOD KUMAR
15 Essence of communication skills in fieldwork
SAUMYA
Biography
Bishnu Mohan Dash is an academician and a researcher in Social Work engaged in spearheading the movement for Bharatiyakaran of social work education in India. He is an Assistant Professor in Social Work at Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, University of Delhi, India.
Sanjoy Roy is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work, University of Delhi, India. He has published more than 45 articles and research papers in different journals and books, and 11 books related to women’s development, fieldwork practice in social work education, and rural development.
‘This book provides an interesting contribution to our understanding of the importance of the student placement during the social work education program in the Indian and South Asian contexts. The contributing authors offer culturally specific suggestions as to how the placement experience can be theorized and utilized. I would recommend this book for those interested in social work education from this region of the world.’ — Dr Michael Wallengren Lynch, Lecturer, Department of Social Work, Gothenburg University, Sweden
‘This book is an essential step forward towards the indigenization of field education in India. I urge administrators and faculty at the over 600 schools of social work in India to relieve field education from its place at the margins of the profession and give it the importance it deserves as the signature pedagogy of social work. I congratulate the editors and authors, who each bring a unique emphasis to the development of a field education model with a Bharatiya curriculum.’ —Laura Gibson, PhD, LCSW, MSW Program Director, Brescia University, USA
‘This substantial work breaks new ground in its wide-ranging account of social work theory and practice in the Indian sub-continent. Practitioners and academics will welcome the variety of content and the lively analysis of different fieldwork settings. Equally important is how this book suggests new paradigms for social work. The authors provide a timely challenge to Eurocentric pedagogical and fieldwork models; social workers and academics from across the globe will find much to learn from the important insights in this volume.’ —Alison Higgs, Open University, UK
