An Overview of Field Work Education in the Social Work Profession in India and Abroad

Abstract

In the social work education field, learning plays a significant role as it allows the field instructors and the social work educators to know the knowledge gained by the student during the field education experience. Field learning helps the instructors to get aware of the way through which the students learn and develop in social work agencies. The article helps examine the field of learning in social work education and compares India and abroad. The articles will focus on the multifaceted nature of field learning that shows the sociocultural approaches associated with the nature of learning settings for understanding the student's learning process in social field education. The article will focus on the cross-comparison of the role of field training in social work education practices across India and other countries, including Australia, Uganda, Canada, Vietnam, Norway, and Sweden. The article helps develop social work education with its practices in various countries.