Civic service worldwide impacts and inquiry / edited by Amanda Moore McBride and Michael Sherraden ; foreword by Amitai Etzioni.
| Other author | McBride, Amanda Moore, 1971- |
| Other author | Sherraden, Michael W. (Michael Wayne), 1948- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, |
| Description | xvi, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2006012759 |
| ISBN | 0765616408 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780765616401 (cloth : alk. paper) |