Civic Professionalism: Using Service Learning to Educate Social Work Students as Citizens
Schools of social work have put considerable energy into civic engagement and community partnership. Despite the attention paid to the civic mission of the university and/or of the profession, however, very little attention has been paid to the civic education of social work students. It will be arg...
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Indiana University School of Social Work
2011-03-01
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| description | Schools of social work have put considerable energy into civic engagement and community partnership. Despite the attention paid to the civic mission of the university and/or of the profession, however, very little attention has been paid to the civic education of social work students. It will be argued here that social work education must include discussions about citizenship and democracy, about participating in our communities apart from our work. Service learning, with its emphasis on civic learning and a complementary focus on social justice, provides both a lens and a pedagogy for accomplishing this. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-35196b3930fe4124b8ec9bd0a17e3e312022-12-21T19:58:05ZengIndiana University School of Social WorkAdvances in Social Work1527-85652331-41252011-03-0112121321704Civic Professionalism: Using Service Learning to Educate Social Work Students as CitizensTracey Kathleen Burke0University of Alaska AnchorageSchools of social work have put considerable energy into civic engagement and community partnership. Despite the attention paid to the civic mission of the university and/or of the profession, however, very little attention has been paid to the civic education of social work students. It will be argued here that social work education must include discussions about citizenship and democracy, about participating in our communities apart from our work. Service learning, with its emphasis on civic learning and a complementary focus on social justice, provides both a lens and a pedagogy for accomplishing this.https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/advancesinsocialwork/article/view/1315Service learning, citizenship, civic education, social justice, professionalization |
| spellingShingle | Tracey Kathleen Burke Civic Professionalism: Using Service Learning to Educate Social Work Students as Citizens Advances in Social Work Service learning, citizenship, civic education, social justice, professionalization |
| title | Civic Professionalism: Using Service Learning to Educate Social Work Students as Citizens |
| title_full | Civic Professionalism: Using Service Learning to Educate Social Work Students as Citizens |
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| title_short | Civic Professionalism: Using Service Learning to Educate Social Work Students as Citizens |
| title_sort | civic professionalism using service learning to educate social work students as citizens |
| topic | Service learning, citizenship, civic education, social justice, professionalization |
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