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Two years ago, the School of Social Work embarked upon a new and challenging initiative to create sustainable structural changes that enrich gerontological learning experiences for all our BSW and MSW students, faculty, fieldwork instructors and community practitioners. We envisioned that participation in this initiative would enable us to expand and embed geriatric content in the undergraduate and graduate curriculum, to increase our geriatric fieldwork placement opportunities, to evaluate and enhance our teaching and learning resources on aging, and to develop two new aging specific courses. Having reached our third year of operation, we find ourselves reflecting on what have been our successes, what could we have done differently, and where do we go in the future. This article will describe our process of developing a model of curriculum change that will guarantee a place for aging in both our undergraduate and graduate curricula. doi: 10.1300/J083v48n01_05 KEYWORDS. Gerontology, curriculum, fieldwork, social work, education

Catholic Social Teaching (CST), by virtue of its convergence with social work values and ethics, is a valuable resource for strengthening the social justice content of social work education. This paper describes how CST is complementary to the NASW Code of Ethics, foundational to the Integrative Framework (a generalist practice model), provides substance to the Core Competencies as defined by the Council on Social Work Education, and operationalizes justice in the classroom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the congruency between Catholic social work education and Catholic social teaching. Schools of Social Work in Catholic institutions prepare students for social work practice in ways that are compatible with the call to justice, the goals of Christian service and the tasks of the Catholic Church's social teaching. Articulating the connections between Catholic social teaching and social work education is an important starting point for understanding the importance of social work education to Catholic colleges and universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article announces that the International Consortium for Social Development has entered into a contract with MetaPress to publish the journal online.