a presentation by sachin kumar, student of iss

1. DR.B.R.AMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY AGRA
EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL WORK
EDUCATION IN INDIA
SACHIN KUMAR
ROLL NO.-34

2. INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL WORK
* THE PRINCIPAL OF SOCIAL WORK IS TO EXTEND
HELP TO ENABLE PEOPLE TO HELP THEMSELVES.
* THE TERM “PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL WORKER” IS
APPLIED ONLY TO FULL TIME EXPERTS WHO HAVE
RECEIVED THEIR TRAINING AT RECOGNIZED
HEIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND HAVE
QUALIFIED THEMSELVES.

3. PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL WORK
ACCORDING TO “HERBERT BISNO”THE PHILOSOPHY
ASSUMPTION UNDERLYING THE THEORY OF SOCIAL WORK.
• EACH INDIVIDUAL BY THE VERY FACT OF HIS EXISTENCE IS
OF WORTH.
• *PUBLIC ASSISTANCE SHOULD BE BASED ON THE
CONCEPT OF NEED.

4. • * SOCIAL WORK REJECTS THE ASSUMPTION SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.

5. SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION IN INDIA
• IN INDIA TRAINING FOR THE VOLUNTARY SOCIAL WORKER STARTED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 1930 BY THE
SOCIAL SERVICE LEAGUE (SSL)IN MUMBAI.THUS THE SEED OF SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION IN COLONIAL
INDIA WAS DOWN BY THE AMERICAN PROFESSIONALS.
• TISS WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1936 ,AS THE SIR DORABJI TATA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK THE
FIRST SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK IN INDIA.IT WAS RENAMED TO ITS CURRENT NAME IN 1944.IT WAS
RECOGNISED AS A DEEMED UNIVERSITY IN 1964 BY THE UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION OF INDIA.
• THE TATA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE (TISS, MUMBAI) WAS ESTABLISHED IN MUMBAI UNDER THE
LEADERSHIP OF DR.CLIFFORD MANSHARD

6. AFTER INDEPENDENCE
• AFTER 1947,THE MAHATMA GANDHI KASHI UNIVERSITY,
EARLIER KNOWN AS KASHI VIDYAPITH VARANASI AND THE
COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SERVICE, GUJARAT VIDYAPITH,
AHMEDABAD,STARTED IMPARTING SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION
IN 1948.
• THE UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION APPOINTED THE
FIRST REVIEW COMMITTEE IN 1960 AND THE SECOND
REVIEW COMMITTEE IN 1975 FOR THE PROMOTION,
MAINTENANCE OF STANDARD EDUCATION.

7. SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION KARNATAKA
* THE FIRST POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA COURSE IN SOCIAL
WORK WAS STARTED AT THE ST.AGNES COLLEGE MANGALORE
BY FRANCES MARIA YASAS,AN AMERICAN CITIZEN ALBANIAN
ORIGIN IN 1958.
*HE MANAGED TO GET GENERAL K.M.CARIYAPPA TO BE THE
PATRON OF THE SOCIETY, USING HIS MILITARY SERVICE
CONNECTION,AND HE ALSO MANAGED TO FIND A PROMINEN
POLITICAL PERSONALITY DEVERAJ URS WHO WAS LABOUR
MINISTER IN S.NIJALINGAPPA’S CABINET DURING 1962-67.

8. AREA OF CONCERN FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL
WORK EDUCATION
• WHILE CLOSING THIS DISCUSSION,WE HAVE ALSO ATTEMPTED TO
BRIEFLY MENTION THE AREA OF CONCERN FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF
SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION.
• THE PRIMARY CONCERN FOR THIS IS TO ENSURE A SYSTEMATIC
DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION IN TERM OF
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION AND AFFILIATION TO RECOGNISED
BOARD AND UNIVERSITIES.

9. CONCLUSION
• IN 1936 SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN INDIA
WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SIR DORABJI TATA GRADUATE
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK IN BOMBAY
• SUBSEQUENTLYY SEVERAL SCHOOLS AND INSTITUTES OF SOCIAL
WORK WERE ESTABLISHED IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.
• SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION HAS THUS PROVED TO BE A
SYSTEMATIC, PURPOSEFUL, INTERVENT BY PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL
WORKERS TO UPLIFT DEVELOP AND EMPOWER THE WEAKER
SECTION OF THE SOCIETY SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION.