Leadership: An Important Domain in Social Work Education

Abstract

The main inspiration for the introduction of the [olIDai training for social work come to this country from the West, especially the United States, when the first training institute was established in 1036 under the directorship an American. The program of education has basically three components: classroom courses, research project and field work. The objectives of professional education currently are to prepare the type and quality of man power capable of performing the professional tasks and functions currently being performed by variety of organizations employing social workers. Due to current political and economic changes which directly influenced on daily lives of people, contemporary social trends may prove more long-lasting than those of either political and economic nature .As a result, governments are likely to seek new approaches for dealing with human services, most acutely by welfare leaders in those developing countries in which population growth exceeds their capacity to satisfy even basic needs. Acting in cooperation with their governments, social welfare specialist will need to give leadership to the development of new public! private partnership in the provision of human services. In social work profession social workers are particularly qualified to provide leadership on critical issues. The foreignness of social work education is so much all - inclusive and pervasive as reflected in its basic organization, curricula and the teaching material that most social work graduates fail to pursue careers in professional social work. Moreover existing training does not prepare them to assume roles ofleadership in planning, fonnulation and implementation of social welfare programs at different level of practice and administration.Indian social work educators must accept this challenge and forge a new strategy to transfonn the existing social work education to develop and use indigenous study material. In this paper the researcher wants to emphasis on the importance of professional leadership in social work profession. It will focus on the role and scope of a leader. The paper highlights on the wider perspective of leadership in social work profession.