ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the changes in the nature of field work education in Sri Lanka and scrutinises the opportunities and the challenges in making appropriate recommendations for the improvement of field work education through a systematic investigation. Sri Lanka has been well-recognised for its professional social work practice among the South Asian countries for several decades, since 1952 with the commencement of a one-year English-language social work diploma at the Ceylon School of Social Work. The field work component was crucial and was also in-built with the key concepts and theoretical aspects of social work. Initially in Sri Lanka, the field work component was attached to institutions which provided child welfare and elderly care. This area of field work underwent huge changes when the Diploma Programme transitioned to Sinhala- and Tamil-language programmes due to the unprecedented transformations in Sri Lankan society.
