Abstract
The Indian social work education is primarily American and euro centric since its inception in the year 1936. The effectiveness and universality of western knowledge, homogenized curriculum in Indian universities is being questioned in several forums as it is not keeping pace with the changing socio economic and political contexts of India and not being able to address the changing societal needs and problems. In this backdrop, the movement for bharatiyakaran of social work education aims to tweak the entire social work curriculum to create a synergy between Indian traditional social services and practices along with global standards of social work education.
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The author acknowledges the constructive comments and suggestions of Prof. Kanagaraj Easwaran, Head, Department of Social Work, Mizoram University (Aizawl, Mizoram, India) and Shri Mukul Kanitkar, National Organising Secretary, BSM, Nagpur.
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Dash, B.M. (2020). Movement Towards Indianisation of Social Work Education. In: S.M., S., Baikady, R., Sheng-Li, C., Sakaguchi, H. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Work Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39966-5_24
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