A New Pedagogical Approach for Integrating Social Work Students and Service Users.

This paper analyses recent experiences at the School of Social Work, Lund University, the first in Sweden to use an innovative pedagogical approach for integrating social service users with social work students in the classroom (an EU-funded project). The concept of gift exchange was used to make se...

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Publicado en:Social Work Education Vol. 30; no. 8; pp. 948 - 964
Autores principales: Kjellberg, Gun, French, Robert
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2011
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          Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, UK
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        Gift Economy
        Integrative Relations
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