M.A. Admissions

Master of Arts in Social Work (Children & Families)

Location: Mumbai

School: School of Social Work - Mumbai Campus

Intake: 20

Description

Children as central to the development discourse and as individuals having rights as citizens is at the core of this thematic area. This approach emanates from an understanding that children have been losing their childhood and spaces for holistic and creative learning and within the current development scenario and they are increasingly being viewed and treated as adults, be it as child labor, sex workers or as adult learners in mainstream education. With increasing marginalisation of specific communities like dalits, adivasis, minorities and the poor, children and families of these communties face greater vulnerabilities and deprivation. It is the children of these communities who live on the edge, struggling to find ways to survive, protect and educate themselves. They are also the major victims of community violence, development led displacement and disasters.

Within this context civil society organisations and state led interventions have often tried to address these issues. While on the one hand efforts through activism and advocacy have brought to the fore the children's agendas in policy making processes, the state has also likewise responded to develop newer interventions strategies to address specific sectoral issues of education, health, protection and development of children. The Master of Arts in Social Work (Children and Families) will enable the development of a critical perspective on the social construction of childhoods, intersectionalities and interrogate families as an evolving institution for engagement with and change for democratisation. The courses will also emphasise understanding of State, Policy and Law and their interaction and dynamics and how these can be engaged with for ensuring the rights of children and families.

Students will be equipped with a strong theoretical foundation on childhoods, family, dynamics of state, policy and law and research. They will also develop skills for praxis, direct work with children and families in diverse locales from institutional settings to community based settings as well as skills for advocacy, activism, research and systemic change within formal institutions of the state and interventions through state programmes

Distribution of Credit Hours:

Semesterwise Courses:

Note: The total number of credits, list of CBCS courses and semester-wise listing of courses is provisional, and may undergo some changes.

Fee Structure:

*Institute reserves the rights to revise the Fees Structure of programme if necessary.