Social Work and Service Learning Partnerships for Social Justice

by Nadel, Meryl; Majewski, Virginia; Sullivan-Cosetti, Marilyn; Furuto, Sharlene; Phillips, Amy; Droppa, David C.; Watkins, Marie L.; Sather, Paul; Ames, Natalie; Yoakam, John R.; Allen, Robin; Malinowski, Rose; Majewski, Virginia; Campbell, Mary

• ISBN13: 9780742559455
• ISBN10: 0742559459
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-08
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This volume applies the service-learning pedagogical approach to the social work curriculum. Its aim is to familiarize social work educators and practitioners with the approach's conceptual and theoretical underpinnings, to illustrate how service learning may be implemented in any of the Council on Social Work Education curriculum content areas, and to suggest methods for assessing the outcomes of these experiences. The book's subject matter is relevant to both baccalaureate and master's level social work education.

Table of Contents

Service learning and social work education : a natural but tenuous connection	p. 3
The components of service learning as pedagogy in social work education	p. 21
Service learning across the social work curriculum	p. 41
Social welfare policy and services : service learning through social policy projects in human service organizations	p. 61
Social work practice : nurturing beginning practice skills while mobilizing partnerships between youth development agencies and social work education	p. 77
Research : infusing service learning into research, social policy, and community-based practice	p. 93
Human behavior and the social environment : an oral history service-learning project	p. 107
Human diversity : service learning and gender studies within a gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender context	p. 121
Populations-at-risk/immersion experience : service learning at summer camp	p. 133
General education : herding cats and making history in a large general education social welfare course	p. 147
Process and outcomes evaluation in a service-learning-intensive curriculum	p. 167
Service learning for social justice : mandate for long-term evaluation?	p. 181
Service learning in social work : a curricular and evaluative model	p. 195
The bigger picture : social work educators' role in civic engagement	p. 209
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