Civic service worldwide : impacts and inquiry / edited by Amanda Moore McBride and Michael Sherraden ; foreword by Amitai Etzioni.
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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Table of Contents:
- 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.