DR. LATA NARAYAN
Associate Professor

Centre for Equity for Women, Children and Families
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK

E-mail: lamen@tiss.edu

Qualifications

• M.S.W, University of Mumbai
• Ph.D. (Social Work), University of Mumbai

Areas of Interest

• Issues related to Youth
• Issues related to Child Rights
• Social Work Education
• Social Work Practice
• Peace and Human Rights
• Human Rights Education

Teaching

• Work with Groups
• Integrated Social Work Practice
• Field Instruction in Social Work Education

Research

• Child : Integrated Child Development Services Scheme [ICDS ], communal riots; education.
• Youth : Mobilising Youth for Development Work; Parsi Youth
• Social Work Education: Motivation of Students of Social Work

Training

For groups such as NSS students and Programme Officers; volunteers, NGO staff and community members, ICDS functionaries, and social work educators on themes such as:

• Motivation
• Leadership
• Ethics and values
• Self–awareness
• Human Rights
• Communication
• Work with groups
• Social work practice

Recent/Significant Publications

• A Comparison of the Educational Initiatives of Freire and Gandhi, The Indian Journal of Social Work, 60(3), 379-398, 1999.
• Freire and Gandhi: Their Relevance for Social Work Education, International Social Work, 43, (2), 193-204, 2000.
• Of One’s Volition: What Influences Choices?, Perspectives in Social Work, 18(1), 9-14, 2003.

• C o–convenor of a TISS Field Action Project, ‘Humanity United in M-Ward [HUM]’, initiated with a vision of ‘creating a Human Rights sensitive Ward’.
• Board Member of NGOs like YUVA, LAYA, MelJol.