Social Work and Service Learning

This book includes conceptual chapters that define social work service learning in contrast to fieldwork, examine its place in the curriculum, and explore how and when to implement service learning into course curricula. A second section features models for service-learning courses, such as service learning in a LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) context, as well as in a program for students in a camp for HIV-affected families.

Chapter 1 Service Learning and Social Work Education: A Natural but Tenuous Connection
Chapter 2 The Components of Service Learning as Pedagogy in Social Work Education
Chapter 3 Service Learning Across the Social Work Curriculum
Chapter 4 Social Welfare Policy and Services: Service Learning through Social Policy Projects in Human Service Organizations
Chapter 5 Social Work Practice: Beginning Practice Skill Development in Introduction to Social Work Courses: Mobilizing Partnerships between Youth Development Agencies and Social Work Education through Service Learning
Chapter 6 Research: Infusing Service Learning into Research, Social Policy, and Community-Based Practice
Chapter 7 Human Behavior and the Social Environment: An Oral History Service-Learning Project
Chapter 8 Human Diversity: Service Learning and Gender Studies within a Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) Context
Chapter 9 Populations-at-Risk/Immersion Experience: Social Work in the Sun: Service Learning at Summer Camp
Chapter 10 General Education: Herding Cats and Making History: Service Learning in a Large General Education Social Welfare Course
Chapter 11 Developing Partnerships between Community and Curriculum: How Does the Team Assess Student Outcomes?
Chapter 12 Service Lerning for Social Justice: Mandate for Long-Term Evaluation?
Chapter 13 Service Learning in Social Work: A Curricular and Evaluative Model
Chapter 14 Social Work, Service Learning, and the American Democracy Project: The Creation of a More Socially Conscious Campus Community