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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McBride, Amanda Moore, 1971-, Sherraden, Michael W. (Michael Wayne), 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Armonk, N.Y. ; London : M.E. Sharpe, 2007.
Temas:
Labor service.
National service.
Young volunteers in community development.
Service civique.
Service national.
Jeunes bénévoles dans le développement communautaire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
Sociale dienstverlening.
Vrijwilligerswerk.
Opbouwwerk.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Building knowledge on civic service worldwide / Amanda Moore McBride and Michael Sherraden
  • From military service to civic service: the evolution of national youth service / Donald J. Eberly and Reuven Gal
  • The effects of national service in Africa, with a focus on Nigeria / Ebenezer Obadare
  • Toward universal national youth service in Israel: possible social capital effects / Nicole Fleischer and Reuven Gal
  • The effects of national service in the United States: a research synthesis / James L. Perry and Ann Marie Thomson
  • 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
  • The potential effects of service-learning and community service in educational settings in Latin America / María Nieves Tapia
  • Youth service and elder service in comparative perspective / Nancy Morrow-Howell and Fengyan Tang
  • International civic service: a step toward cooperation in a global world / Margaret Sherrard Sherraden
  • Social psychological theory and the potential for intergroup and ethnonational cooperation in civic service programs / Ronald Pitner
  • Civic service across nations and cultures: the range of effects and ways to study them / Justin Davis Smith and Angela Ellis Paine
  • Directions in civic service scholarship: an institutional perspective / Amanda Moore McBride and Michael Sherraden, with Natasha Menon.

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