FIELD WORK IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN INDIA

Abstract

Field practice is an integral part of social work education and it is an approach to instruction and learning through which social work as a profession facilitates students to become practitioners through community involvement activities. All over the world especially in developing countries, social work education requires field practices that are recognized as that of medicine, law, education, agriculture etc. discipline. Social work education does not end in class room instructions, guided group interactions and interchanges of ideas are also applied to practice on professional ownership. To complete social work education and to be a professional social worker, field practice is essential for the students of social work.