Social Work and Service Learning
eBook - ePub

Social Work and Service Learning

Partnerships for Social Justice

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eBook - ePub

Social Work and Service Learning

Partnerships for Social Justice

About this book

Service learning and social work education comprise an exciting, yet underutilized, partnership. This book represents the first comprehensive overview of this active and empowering approach to learning in social work. Both educators and practitioners will discover conceptual and practical guidance for developing productive community-based projects.

Often envisioned as located at the midpoint on a continuum from volunteer work to internship, service learning combines the opportunity to serve with the opportunity to learn. It offers community agencies a chance to collaborate with academic colleagues to meet identified community needs, frequently with an explicit social justice dimension.

The contributors illustrate how service learning facilitates students' understanding and interacting with community members as partners, not clients. Service learning encourages students to use critical thinking skills to reflect on their work and its implications. This combination of study-action-reflection in conjunction with course content is highly effective.

The book explores its subject from several perspectives. The first section serves as a conceptual and theoretical orientation to service learning in social work. The second section offers models that illustrate many ways of implementing service learning across the components of the social work curriculum. The final two parts of the book focus on evaluation and service learning in the broader context of civic engagement.

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Yes, you can access Social Work and Service Learning by Meryl Nadel,Virginia Majewski,Marilyn Sullivan-Cosetti in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Social Work. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. Preface
  9. Part I—Defining the Fit: Theory and Concepts
  10. Part II—Models for Service Learning Across the Curriculum
  11. Part III—Assessing Outcomes of Service-Learning Experiences
  12. Part IV—The Bigger Picture: Civic Engagement on Campus
  13. Index
  14. About the Authors