Indian Social Work
eBook - ePub

Indian Social Work

  1. 198 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Indian Social Work

About this book

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 analyzes the history of social work education in India and how the discipline has adapted and changed in the last 80 years. It emphasizes the need for the Indianization of social work curriculum so that it can 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 is 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.

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Yes, you can access Indian Social Work by Bishnu Mohan Dash,Mithilesh Kumar,D. P. Singh,Siddheshwar Shukla in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Política y relaciones internacionales & Política social. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of figures
  7. List of tables
  8. List of contributors
  9. Preface
  10. Foreword
  11. Introduction
  12. 1 Indian perspective of social work
  13. 2 Eight decades of professional social work: taking stock of issues and challenges
  14. 3 Indigenization of social work curriculum: review and restructure
  15. 4 Indigenous and Indianized social work education in India: a way forward
  16. 5 Contemporary challenges to social work education and practice in India
  17. 6 Decolonization of social work education and the tribal of Northeast India
  18. 7 Indigenization of Indian social work: a critical curriculum analysis for knowledge building
  19. 8 Indigenization of social work through bhakti and yoga
  20. 9 Ancient concepts: relevance for indigenous social work in India
  21. 10 Evidence of ancient Indian work in mental health and its use for modern social work practice
  22. 11 Reducing stress of cancer patients through Vipassana meditation
  23. 12 The Buddhist experience of an ethnographer: reporting from field experiences
  24. 13 Relevance of Hinduism in social work
  25. 14 Alimentary meditations in select ancient Indian philosophical thought
  26. 15 Exploring oriental roots of social work through Jainism
  27. Index