Amanda Moore McBride, Michael Sherraden

Civic Service Worldwide (eBook, ePUB)

Impacts and Inquiry

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive collection of the research and policy developments in civic service worldwide, this work provides an assessment of what works and what doesn't work in the field. It presents a conceptualization and operational definition of civic service that allows for variations across nations and cultures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315497433
• Artikelnr.: 45433984

Autorenporträt

Amanda Moore McBride (Author), Michael Sherraden (Author)

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Civic Service Analysis Has Come of Age, Amitai Etzioni; Preface
and Acknowledgements; Part I. Context; 1. Building Knowledge on Civic
Service Worldwide, Amanda Moore McBride and Michael Sherraden, with
Margaret Lombe and Fengyan Tang; 2. From Military Service to Civic Service:
The Evolution of National Youth Service, Donald J. Eberly and Reuven Gal;
Part II. National Service: Policy, Potential, and Effects; 3. The Effects
of National Service in Africa, with a Focus on Nigeria, Ebenezer Obadare;
4. Toward Universal National Youth Service in Israel: Possible Social
Capital Effects, Nicole Fleischer and Reuven Gal; 5. The Effects of
National Service in the United States: A Research Synthesis, James Perry
and Ann Marie Thomson; Part III. Civic Service Across the Life Course; 6.
Civic Service Among Youth in Chile, Denmark, England, and the United
States: A Psychological Perspective, Judith Torney-Purta, Jo-Ann Amadeo,
and Wendy Klandl Richardson; 7. The Potential Effects of Service-learning
and Community Service in Educational Settings in Latin America, Maria
Nieves Tapia; 8. Youth Service and Elder Service in Comparative
Perspective, Nancy Morrow-Howell and Fengyan Tang; Part IV. Civic Service
Across Borders; 9. International Civic Service: A Step Toward Cooperation
in a Global World, Margaret Sherrard Sherraden; 10. Social Psychological
Theory and the Potential for Intergroup and Ethnonational Cooperation in
Civic Service Programs, Ronald Pitner; Part V. Impacts and Inquiry; 11.
Civic Service Across Nations and Cultures: The Range of Effects and Ways to
Study Them, Justin Davis Smith and Angela Ellis; 12. Directions in Civic
Service Scholarship: An Institutional Perspective, Amanda Moore McBride and
Michael Sherraden, with Natasha Menon About the Editors and Contributors; *
Index.