School of Social Work

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The School of Social Work is engaged in social work education, building social work knowledge and praxis through a range of ideological stances as reflected in the curriculum, complex domains of practice, research and field engagements. The core constitutional ethos and values pervade all aspects of learning, knowledge building and interventions. Interwoven with the same are aspects of social justice, rights, development and empowerment of society simultaneously appreciating differences and intersectionalities created through categorical imperatives of caste, class, gender, ethnicity and faith.

The mission is thus to create a cadre of professionals who are able to converge the discursive and practical aspects of interventions. The discursive aspects get seen through the divergent perspectival stances of welfare, development, radical, engendered and rights-based, which are meaningfully integrated to translate into informed practice. The practical realms decode ideologies and ethics in arenas of interventions (or fields of practice) understood as health, social pathology, communities (real and metaphorical), social and ethnic conflicts, disability, tribal and indigenous groups, dalits, and differential population groupings (manifesting in terms of life course and gender aware interventions). The vision is to create a critical social work education that encapsulates the welfare- based, radical, feminist and subaltern subjectivities and sensibilities; to meaningfully translate the standpoints into fields of practice and envisaging a just, equitable and egalitarian society with adequate negotiating spaces for all existential beings.