Social Work and Service Learning - Partnerships for Social Justice (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2007
First published:	July 2007
Editors:	Meryl Nadel • Virginia Majewski • Marilyn Sullivan-Cosetti
Contributors:	Sharlene Furuto • Amy Phillips • David C Droppa • Marie L. Watkins • Paul Sather • Natalie Ames • John R Yoakam
Dimensions:	239 x 161 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	250
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-7425-5945-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social work > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7425-5945-9
Barcode:	9780742559455

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