ABSTRACT
The whole point of education is to mould impressionable minds, develop character and to impart or pass on skills where there was only raw potential and talent before. Social work education has to meet the challenge of maintaining this motivation and help it grow as well as give direction to our students to engage more effectively and empathetically with people, understand the root causes of their problems and work with them for their empowerment. Social work education for social transformation is not new idea or paradigm in our programmes. To enable students to become social change agents, social work educators would need to move away from the 'banking concept' of education and provide freedom for creativity and innovation to students. 'The response to social transformation may not entail adaptation to globalisation but rather resistance. This may involve mobilisation of traditional cultural and social resources, but can take new forms of "globalisation from below" through transnational civil society organisations'.
