ABSTRACT
Concurrent fieldwork training and supervision is one of the key components of social work education. Perennially many discussions have taken place on the structural challenges of this process. Many of these challenges have continued to affect both fieldwork supervisors and students despite attempts to meet them. Also, many new context-specific challenges have emerged due to expansion of social work education in India to remote contexts. This paper is an attempt to highlight both generic and context-specific challenges that confront social work educators/fieldwork supervisors and students in fieldwork training and supervision process at Department of Social Work, Assam University, Silchar, located at the heart of Barak Valley in South Assam. Moreover, it highlights proposed solutions to meet these challenges. Both the challenges and solutions are based on the analysis of qualitative primary data that was collected through in-depth interactions and discussions with social work educators and students of Assam University.
