Block Field Work Learning Report

Block Field Work Learning Report

Name:                                                 Gajraj Singh Solankee

Enrollment no:                                             M2017DTA005

Name of the Agency:                       Center for Dalit Studies 

Name of the Course:        Dalit and Tribal studies & Action

Name of the Field Supervisor:                    Prof. Bodhi S.R.

Introduction –

During our thirty days block fieldwork; we were in block placements in the Siddipet district of Telangana state. There, we worked under Block Placement in the Center for Dalit Studies and also participated in many institutional activities. Practical-based social work for a professional social worker requires a combination of theoretical and practical education. Both types of education are important in order to become social workers for the students of social work, and through the regional education experience, they are required both in and outside the university class. In classroom and area settings, the learning process for students is important to help students acquire, practice and improve essential values, skills, and knowledge. By working with the community, it is an important step in becoming a competent and ethical professional social worker, and thus, it can be seen as a development process. Under Block Placement, we have focused more on the practical work in the field, especially the process of governing policies, rules and procedures for them and the process of finding and understanding the factors affecting them and learning about the oriented nature of learning. Field learning plays a major role in social education and in this way these social work areas are especially important for us to understand the process of learning for us in education.

The objective of the block field work –

1. To develop methods of working in partnership where there are differences in power, caste, ethnicity, gender, age, culture and other differences in status. 
2. To develop the ability to recognize and value the expertise/experience of individuals, families, groups, and communities of Dalit and Tribe groups. 
3. To develop an awareness of discrimination, social disadvantage, prejudice and different forms of oppression
4. To develop strategies that challenge oppression, discrimination, exclusion, disadvantage and other forms of inequality/injustice based on caste and tribe background.
5. To evidence in practice the ability to listen, respect and promote the views and wishes of oppressed/service users within the context of engagement either in social movements, peoples organizations or State Departments. 

Learning through or participated in the activities-     

The organic agriculture workshop

In this workshop, about 25 women of Purusa took part in this workshop from four villages of Raipur, Naskal, Bona, and Chalme. The workshop was encouraged by Mr. Kishan Pantraj, who has been training various groups of farmers on organic farming in the village for the last eight years. In this workshop, he told us about many ways of working in agriculture and at the same time, by reducing the use of chemicals in agriculture, we can easily prepare fertilizers and medicines from our daily use, Due to which the cost of agriculture can also be reduced. Along with this, he told about drip irrigation, how we can produce crops even with less water. Thus the profits of the farmer can be increased further. Most of the farmers in this workshop belonged to Scheduled Castes, who were given land by the Telangana government through three acres of land distribution scheme. Through this workshop, we got an opportunity to connect with people and understand the challenges of agricultural work. We have seen there that people are actively participating in organic farming, because in the state of Telangana, due to water scarcity agriculture work is getting difficult. We saw that the farmers are now heading towards organic farming. In this workshop, I got an opportunity to connect with people and understand the usefulness of organics.

Right to Education-

There has been a long history of the movement for the rights of children in Telangana state. Like all the country, child labor and education have been a sensational issue even in Telangana, a long struggle was fought against these issues in the country by many social workers. After that, the law of education was made in 2005. There was no awareness of the fundamental rights related to the children in the community, which gave every child many rights as well by the "Right to Education". Education is a very important issue today. Every child should get a free and compulsory education while we see that most of the children are stuck in some kind of child labor. Therefore, to break this series, a movement was launched which included the civil society organization involved in creating awareness among the community. With the workers related to this movement, we got an opportunity to participate in one day workshop with them. There we got an opportunity to know and understand the issues of child labor and the law of education rights in 2005. 

I have an observation of many type programs and schemes like 

SC/ST special development fund act

Analyzed the schemes of social welfare department etc

Learning and Reflection-

During block fieldwork, I learned to write a report, learned to write an article on the blog, as well as participated in other programs organized by the organization, which gave me an opportunity to better understand those issues. In this session, I have got the opportunity to know the many rules and regulations related to the scheme run by the government, policies run by the Dalit community. During my fieldwork, I have participated in various types of activities at various levels. After that, in this area, we have learned how to interact with our target group. How can we work together with people in this area, what are their issues, and how those issues are resolved? How the organization creates different strategies for those issues.

Developed professional skills to implement social work theories and methods in practice in the block field work-

During the working of my fieldwork, I got a chance to know and understand a variety of things. I learned about professional skills and communication skills with my filed work like of talking with the community, interacting with the government department, addressing of people in the workshop etc. During my fieldwork, I have tried to use social work theory and social work methods.

Developed of Understanding of agency and administration-

During block fieldwork, I got an opportunity to understand the work of the organization. I have observed how the organization works to make policies and schemes effective in governance within the government. I also understood the structure of the organization.

Learning of Policy level –

During our block fieldwork, I have learned a lot about the work of government policy level. Government policy is made to apply what kind of grassroots up and know how many changes in social policies so things got a chance to learn and understand.

The work of policy analysis is very important in the field of social work. All the policies and schemes of the state are made for marginalized communities. For this, it is very important for us to learn the policies of policy analysis.

Learning to write articles-

During the block placement, I have developed a skill for writing articles. Writing articles or research on any issue, adding new facts about that issue and developing skills to write it in professional language. Developing a skill writing profession is very important for the professional social worker, so I have developed this skill during this block placement.

 Levels of the Intervention -

Social work is often divided into three broad practice categories: Micro, Mezzo and Macro. Micro-social work is the most common practice, and directly with a personal customer or family. Mezzo social work is done on an intermediate scale, which includes neighborhoods, institutions or other small groups. Macro-level social work is a large-scale intervention that affects the entire communities and systems of care. During the block area's work, we have worked at all these levels, in which we are in association with the community in different villages of Siddipet district.  Have talks. At the same time, we have also held meetings with the district administration regarding various issues, plans, programs, and policies.

MICRO LEVEL     

                                           (Individual, Landholder, and Beneficiary)

MEZZO LEVEL

                                              (Families, Community)

MACRO LEVEL

                                 (Legal System with Government, Administration, and Groups)

We have applied and integrated social work theories and methods in the fieldwork setting-

Social work theory generally works on evidence obtained through the scientific method. One theory can explain human behavior when we try to learn about events occurring in the community around us scientifically. It is a human trait in which whatever happens in our conversation, we gather in search of its causes, and research what is the reason behind them, by telling us how humans behave on some excitement or humans. We react and we try to connect them with each other. We have tried to implement social learning theory in our fieldwork.

By - Gajraj Solankee