Indian social work / edited by Bishnu Mohan Dash, Mithilesh Kumar, D P Singh, and Siddheshwar Shukla.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dash, Bishnu Mohan, editor.

Kumar, Mithilesh (Assistant professor of social work), editor.

Singh, D. P., editor.

Shukla, Siddheshwar, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social work education--India.

Social work education.

Social service--India.

Social service.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon : Routledge, 2021.

Summary:

"This book provides multiple frameworks and paradigms for social work education which integrates indigenous theories and cultural practices. It focuses on the need to diversify and reorient social work curriculum to include indigenous traditions of service, charity, and volunteerism to help social work evolve as a profession in India. The volume analyses the history of social work education in India and how the discipline has adapted and changed in the last 80 years. It emphasizes on the need for the Indianisation of social work curriculum so that it could be applied to the socio-cultural contours of a diverse Indian society. The book delineates strategies and methods derived from meditation, Yoga, Bhakti and ancient Buddhist and Hindu philosophy to prepare social work practitioners with the knowledge, and skills that will support and enhance their ability to work in partnership with diverse communities and indigenous people. This book will be an essential reading for teachers, educators, field practitioners and students of social work, sociology, religious studies, ancient philosophy, law, and social entrepreneurship. It will also interest policy makers and those associated with civil society organizations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Preface

Foreword

Introduction

1 Indian perspective of social work

2 Eight decades of professional social work: taking stock of issues and challenges

3 Indigenization of social work curriculum: review and restructure

4 Indigenous and Indianized social work education in India: a way forward

5 Contemporary challenges to social work education and practice in India

6 Decolonization of social work education and the tribal of Northeast India

7 Indigenization of Indian social work: a critical curriculum analysis for knowledge building

8 Indigenization of social work through bhakti and yoga

9 Ancient concepts: relevance for indigenous social work in India

10 Evidence of ancient Indian work in mental health and its use for modern social work practice

11 Reducing stress of cancer patients through Vipassana meditation

12 The Buddhist experience of an ethnographer: reporting from field experiences

13 Relevance of Hinduism in social work

14 Alimentary meditations in select ancient Indian philosophical thought

15 Exploring oriental roots of social work through Jainism

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-17954-0

0-429-32181-3

1-000-17958-3

9780429321818

OCLC:

1150863417