ERIC Number: EJ936796
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Aug
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-1544-0389
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Service Learning and Community-Based Partnerships: A Model for Teaching Macro Practice Social Work
Nandan, Monica; Scott, Patricia
Journal of College Teaching & Learning, v8 n8 p25-37 Aug 2011
This article describes an innovative project that combined service learning and community-based partnerships to teach macro practice skills to social work students and citizenship skills to primary school students. The partners, a small social work program, several primary schools, and an internationally recognized civic engagement program, coordinated the project from 2003 to 2007. A formative evaluation of the project indicated that both primary school and social work students benefited from the experience. In particular, the project helped social work students develop a wide range of macro practice skills which, according to research, many graduates fail to acquire. In fact, students used knowledge and skills from all ten competency areas listed in the Council on Social Work Education's (2008) Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards. The authors conclude that social work programs need to provide students with macro-focused, community-based, supplemental experiences, similar to this project, if programs hope to meet CSWE accreditation standards. (Contains 1 endnote and 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Service Learning, Program Effectiveness, Educational Policy, Social Work, Caseworker Approach, Partnerships in Education, Skill Analysis, Citizenship Education, School Community Programs, Community Education, Questionnaires, Participant Satisfaction, Program Attitudes, Models, Teaching Methods
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Adult Education; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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