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For social work educators, practitioners, and human services administrators, Nadel (social work, Iona College) et al. compile 14 essays that provide an introduction to service learning as a social work modality by combining discussion of theoretical background, practical experience, and research-based outcomes data. Chapters cover pedagogy, and service-learning activities in social work courses, such as those on social welfare policy and services, youth development agencies, research, oral history projects, human diversity, general education, and an immersion experience at a summer camp for HIV-infected and affected families. Outcomes assessment and civic engagement are the subjects of the final sections. The book does not include discussion of the field practicum. Contributors are from social work programs around the US. The book originated in May 2003 at the Invitational Conference on Service Learning in Social Work Education, sponsored by the U. of Nebraska at Omaha, and half of the chapters in the volume came out of presentations given there. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Meryl Nadel, MSW, DSW is an associate professor and director of the Center for Social Research in the Social Work Department at Iona College, New Rochelle, NY. In addition to service learning, her research interests include social work/social welfare history, prevention, qualitative methods, and social work involvement in the summer camp movement. Virginia Majewski, MSW, PhD is professor and associate dean of the Indiana University School of Social Work in Indianapolis, IN. In addition to service learning as a pedagogical approach for social justice, her research and teaching interests include hunger and food insecurity, rural community organizing, and American Indian issues. Marilyn Sullivan-Cosetti, MSW, PhD is an associate professor and director of the Seton Hill University Social Work Program, Greensburg, PA. Her research interests include service learning in the academy, juvenile female violent offenders, and community organization practice.