Macro Practice Research Questions What Social Work Is-Curriculum design by Sri Lankan Buddhist monks

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26590118
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Shukutoku University
• Principal Investigator: Akimoto Tatsuru 淑徳大学, アジア国際社会福祉研究所, 教授 (20167844)
• Research Collaborator: Anuradha Wickramasinghe SFFL(Small Fishers Federation Lanka), 代表 ; Chandana Kodituwakku SFFL(Small Fishers Federation Lanka), スタッフ ; Jayathilake Perera SFFL(Small Fishers Federation Lanka), スタッフ ; Ponweera Arachchige Sidni Malan Appuhami SFFL(Small Fishers Federation Lanka), スタッフ ; Mihintale , Seelarathana ; ミヒンタレ , 僧侶 ; M.H.D.R. Herath Peradeniya University, 社会学部, 教授
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 仏教ソーシャルワーク / カリキュラムデザイン / マクロレベルPBR / プラクティスベーストリサーチ / スリランカ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

A census-type field research of Buddhist temples (400) in several sub-districts in Sri Lanka found the fact that various social activities similar to Western-rooted professional social work had widely prevailed among Theravada monks. The obtained data and information are utilized for the curriculum design and operation of a new university which provides monks with the education of Buddhist social work which is different from Western social work.
The whole research process found such surmative general themes to discuss in the macro-level PBR (Practice-based Research) as (a) external disturbances and especially their relation with the shifts of needs (research purpose/goal), (b) the respect of practice/practitioner's interest, will and choice and its disturbance to scientificness. (Rigorousness, etc.).

Free Research Field

国際ソーシャルワーク、労働ソーシャルワーク