Twenty-fifth International Conference on Learning

Abstract

One of the key objectives of Education as an Institution is to instill amongst students sound value system and work towards community development with passion. This is manifested in learning by amalgamation of theory and practice. Course curriculum of Social Work as a discipline includes theory courses on various facets of society along with field work. Areas covered are adult education, working with elderly, women empowerment, community development and health. Traditionally Indian society has had the Gurukul system wherein students stayed with the Sage (guru) in the Ashram and learned all nuances about professional subjects and sensitivity towards local community and society at large. With changing times, contemporary India witnessed erosion of values among youth to some extent and the new waive about inducting community outreach activities as part of higher education learning has picked up in educational institutions of higher learning. This has been extended from social work discipline to all disciplines of professional learning, meaning thereby, students with back ground of social sciences, engineering, Management are required to work for community empowerment as part of their course curriculum. The author has conducted community development projects in field of ICT, health, water management and social issues which has far reaching implications of education in community development.