ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many persons and institutions contributed to the preparation of this
volume.  First, I thank the students of my Fall 1991 University of
Pennsylvania Freshman Seminar on Dilemmas in International Development. 
Through the preparation of resource chapters for this volume, these
students were willing to take a significant risk in exposing their first
university writing effort to public scrutiny; the enthusiasm with which
they undertook the challenge was inspiring.

     My undergraduate research assistant, Paul Skeith, provided research
guidance to the undergraduate students whose chapters were selected for
inclusion in the volume.  Paul also undertook the highly tedious task of
converting documents prepared in nearly a dozen different computer formats
to just one--a feat for which I thank and continue to admire him! 
Bernadette Barker-Plummer provided the undergraduate students with writing
and technical assistance in the preparation of various drafts of their
chapters.  I thank her and Penn's "Writing Across the University" Program
for their much valued contributions toward this effort.

     I also thank the graduate students in my International Social
Development and Comparative Social Welfare courses taught at the George
Warren Brown School of Social Work of Washington University and the
University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work.  These students
contributed generously to many of the ideas contained in the volume.  In
addition, Thomas Krebs and Diane Smitz of Washington University
contributed resource materials to several chapters in the "specialized
fields of practice" section of the volume.  Shanti Khinduka, Dean of the
George Warren Brown School of Social Work, is thanked for providing me
with the opportunity to serve as an itinerant Visiting Professor in that
School's "Social and Economic Development" concentration.  

      I also thank my faculty colleagues at Penn who provided many useful
and stimulating ideas concerning alternative ways in which some of
volume's central concepts might best be presented.  As always, their
suggestions proved helpful.
    
     Ann Glusker, Lynne M. Healy, Dorothy van Soest are acknowledged for
their splendid contributions to the volume; their chapters add measurably
to the volume's breadth and richness. 

     Finally, special appreciation is expressed to William Savitt of the
Interfaith Hunger Appeal.  Through his leadership as Director of Education
for the Appeal, Bill first supported the project and, then, made funds
available to distribute the completed volume to selected graduate and
undergraduate social work programs. 


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Excerpted from Richard J. Estes (1992) _Internationalizing Social Work
Education:  A Guide to Resources For a New Century_ (Philadelphia: 
University of Pennsylvania ).

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