Department of Social Work organised a Seminar
Seminar on
religious and humanitarian roots of social work and social service
As part of its value added programmes,
the Department of Social Work organised a seminar on the Religious and Humanitarian
roots of social work on 8th July 2013. The MSW course has one foundational paper
titled “Social work profession, philosophy and ideology”. The department organised this seminar to
supplement the learnings from this paper with inputs from experts on specific
areas of learning.
The first address revolved around the
contribution of Blessed Fr Chavara to the field of education, social service
and his message to the world. FR Jose
C.C, Principal, Christ Junior College,Bangalore, delivered this lecture which
highlighted the contributions of Blessed Chavara as well as sterling aspects of
his personality which helped him start the first indigenous congregation in
India. This address was highly
informative and was a great eye opener to the students as well as the staff
members of the department.
The second address was on the
religious roots of social work. As is
well known, the pillar of social services has been charity and philanthropy. These are important features in the evolution
of professional social work. These activities in most societies are traced to
the religious life of people and the doctrines that religions uphold. These observations were comprehensively
brought out by the lecture delivered by Fr George, Director of BOSCO a
pioneering NGO of Bangalore city.
The third lecture revolved around
another pillar of social services which is humanitarianism. Prof T.S. Chandrasekhar of the Bangalore
University very poignantly pointed out that all the methods of social work
practice would remain incomplete without the inclusion of the humanitarian
approach. Apt examples were given to
highlight how the practice of social work is essentially the practice of
humanitarianism.
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