Rural Community Engagement In Higher Education Institutions – Revisiting the Existing Literature

In India, Social work education has been mainly Western-centric and failed to address societal needs and their problems. There is a growing realization of limitations of the Western model in the Indian context that calls for Indigenous social work practice. It is because of the borrowed teaching content from Western literature, and there is hardly any relevance in the Indian context. We are living in the era of global research and innovation, where one could not underestimate scale and important of the HIEs. To achieve goals of socio-economic development, HIEs can contribute effectively, through community engagement program. In 2018, UGC launched an ambitious Quality Mandate that emphasis to improve the societal linkages of HEIs which could be pivotal for students to become socially productive. In addition, there is constant need in the Higher Institute to develop better understanding and incorporating the issues which are very happening in the society and it could be achievable by bring in social responsibility and community in their vision and mission itself, in result of this definitely there will be improvements in the standard of research as well teaching. This paper center on works on indigenous knowledge reflects how the criteria for involvement to rural community could be pivotal within the local context by exploring vivid literature on indigenization and their influence on the paradigm of social work and its curriculum specially which is related to rural community engagement in Higher Education Institution.