Student volunteerism as a thread of community engagement: its salience to social work education.
The advancement of community engagement as an interrelated aspect of teaching and research compels social work education to consider how it may create opportunities to strengthen notions of social responsibility amongst its students. Volunteerism offers one promising pathway whereby students can app...
| Publicado en: | Social Work Education Vol. 42; no. 8; pp. 1307 - 1327 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2023
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