Water and Sanitation in Mumbai's Slums: Education through Inquiry Based Learning in Social Work

Authors

Ronald Yesudhas, College of Social Work, Nirmala NiketanFollow
Patil Lalit, College of Social Work, Nirmala NiketanFollow
Antony Josy, College of Social Work, Nirmala NiketanFollow
Shenoy Impana, College of Social Work, Nirmala NiketanFollow

Abstract

Water and sanitation are the most important services necessary for life and dignity of citizens. But slum dwellers are excluded from these services, resulting in environmental degradation, marginalization and poor health. Through inquiry based learning, the first author has attempted to give his students an first hand and innovative learning experience by helping them to explore water and sanitation issues in the Ambujwadi slum of Mumbai (India) on their own. The paper highlights the pedagogical approach and by the way of illustrations helps the reader to understand its usefulness in teaching students of social work.

Keywords

Inquiry Based Learning, Slums, Sanitation, Water, Abuse

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Professor Abraham Antony, Head of the Field Work Department and Dr. Geeta Balakrishnan, Principal of the College of Social Work, Nirmala Niketan for the support and encouragement for undertaking the innovative experiment.

Publication Date

11-10-2014

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2014.1110

Recommended APA Citation

Yesudhas, R., Lalit, P., Josy, A., & Impana, S. (2014). Water and Sanitation in Mumbai's Slums: Education through Inquiry Based Learning in Social Work. The Qualitative Report, 19(45), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2014.1110