چکیده (انگلیسی):

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 wo rk
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.