From Service to Action? Students, Volunteering and Community Action in Mid Twentieth-Century Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8408593 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Georgina Brewis (0000-0003-4273-7724, Insper, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 439-449 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Educational Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1005 • E-ISSN: 1467-8527 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00071005.2010.527668 |
| OpenAlex | W1989862406 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 5 |
Volunteering by higher education students in the UK has a long history which remains largely unexplored despite recent research and policy attention. This article offers a brief overview of the development of student volunteering before the 1960s and then discusses a shift from student social service to Student Community Action in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It argues that this shift was underpinned by a growing student movement in support of volunteering overseas; the perceived failures of the ‘youth volunteer boom’ of the 1960s and by the wider questioning of the values of higher education. The article then considers the rapid growth of Student Community Action across universities and colleges in the UK before reflecting upon the success and challenges of the movement
Action (physics) · Boom · Community service · Economic growth · Economy · Higher education · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Service (business) · Sociology · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Public Administration · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
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Student volunteering in historical perspective
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University Support for Student Volunteering in England
Volunteering, choice and control
Volunteering England
The National Union of Students and transnational solidarity, 1958–1968
Youth against hunger
The Gift of Volunteering and the Virtues of Self-Love
Chinese University Student Volunteering for Schools in Distant Locations
Using drawings to understand perceptions of civic engagement across disciplines
They do treat us as a bit normal now
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2022 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |