Exploring the experience of service and volunteering around the world
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| Chapter 1 Civic Service Worldwide: A preliminary assessment | |
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Amanda Moore McBride, PhD, is Research Director of the Global Service Institute (GSI) at the Centre for Social Development (CSD), Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri USA. She is currently co-principal investigator for CSD's research agenda on civic service worldwide. She also works on projects studying the efficacy of asset development programmes and policies such as individual development accounts. Her scholarship focuses on the forms and effects of civic service, savings behaviour of low-income individuals, and the civic effects of asset development. |
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Carlos Benítez, MSW, is Data and Communications Co–ordinator of the Global Service Institute (GSI) at the Center for Social Development, Washington University in St. Louis. A former Fulbright scholar, Benítez has pursued interests in social and economic development and social science research. He co-ordinated data collection and analysis for the first global assessment of civic service, and he developed and administers the GSI Small Research Grants Programme. He recently completed a study assessing the transnational, North American Community Service pilot programme. |
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Michael Sherraden, PhD, is Benjamin E Youngdahl Professor of Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis, Director of the Center for Social Development (CSD), and principal investigator for CSD's Global Service Institute research agenda. Sherraden is known as the originator of the concept of asset-based, anti-poverty policy, which has influenced policies and programmes worldwide. His scholarship on civic service spans several decades, including with Don Eberly National Service: Social, Economic and Military Impacts (1982) and The Moral Equivalent of War? A Study of Non-Military Service in Nine Nations (1990). |
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Lissa Johnson, MSW, LCSW, is Project Director at the Center for Social Development (CSD) at Washington University in St. Louis. She has experience in direct practice, applied research, and evaluation. Johnson is involved with research on asset-building initiatives and civic service with the Global Service Institute. She led the development of a management information system (MIS) for a nationwide asset-building project and is currently leading the development of a global web-based information network on civic service. |
| Chapter 2 The Post-Cold War Environment for National Service Policy: Developments in Germany, Italy, Russia and China | |
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Susan Stroud is the Executive Director of Innovations in Civic Participation, Director of Programme and Policy Development of the Global Service Institute, and co-editor of Service Enquiry. From 1998 to 2001 she directed an international project on national and community service at the Ford Foundation, and worked with service programmes in South Africa, Russia and Mexico. She served in The White House and at the Corporation for National Service to help enact and implement AmeriCorps legislation, and founded the Campus Compact and the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University. |
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Tatiana Omeltchenko is a graduate student in sociology and works as a research assistant with Innovations in Civic Participation. She has contributed research and valuable drafting assistance with this article. |
| Chapter 3 National Youth Policy and National Youth Service: Towards concerted action | |
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William D Angel has been Secretary General of the International Council on National Youth Policy since January 2002, Co-ordinator, United Nations Training Study on National Youth Policy (2001), and Chief of the United Nations Youth Unit (1996-2000). He has undertaken advisory service missions to over 20 countries to support national youth policies and programmes. He worked in the United Nations for 24 years in the field of social development on programmes concerned with youth, the advancement of women, juvenile delinquency, family and ageing. |
| Chapter 4 Rethinking Community-Based Learning in the Context of Globalisation | |
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Ahmed C Bawa is a Higher Education Programme Officer at the Ford Foundation in its Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom Programme. He is based in the Foundation's Johannesburg Office in South Africa. Prior to this he worked as Academic Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Natal in South Africa. He is a theoretical physicist by training. |
| Chapter 5 Taking People Out of Boxes and Categories: Voluntary service and social cohesion | |
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Arthur Gillette is former Secretary General of the Co-ordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service and Director of UNESCO's Youth and Sports Activities Division. Amongst other publications, he has authored One Million Volunteers: The Story of Volunteer Youth Service (Penguin Books, 1968) and New Trends in Service By Youth (United Nations, 1971). Currently he works as a freelance consultant on youth employment and voluntary service issues, and as Resourcing Co-ordinator for the International Council on National Youth Policy. |
| Chapter 6 Senior Volunteers: Solutions waiting to happen | |
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Elisabeth Hoodless, CBE, is the Executive Director of Community Service Volunteers, the leading volunteer agency in the United Kingdom. She is responsible for 110 000 volunteers aged 3 to106, who work nationwide helping children to read, supporting family practice patients, protecting trees and rivers, encouraging blood donors and mentoring young offenders to reduce crime. Seven hundred colleagues and a budget of over £30m underpin the operation. She also chairs Islington Youth Court. Internationally, she is president of Volonteurope (European network of volunteer agencies) and serves on the board of Innovations in Civic Participation. |
| Chapter 7 Theoretical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Civic Service | |
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Dr Leila Patel is Professor and Chair of Social Development Studies at the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg, South Africa. She served as Vice-principal and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of the Witwatersrand (1998–2002) and as Director General, Department of Welfare in the South African government (1996–1998). She has facilitated university-community partnerships, developed service-learning programmes at the University of the Witwatersrand, and authored numerous scholarly articles, conference proceedings, research reports, occasional papers and books, including Restructuring of Social Welfare – the Options for South Africa (1992). |
| Chapter 8 University-Based Community Service, Foreign Debt Relief and Sustainable Development | |
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Dr. Víctor Arredondo Álvarez is President of Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico. Prior to this he served as Head of the Office for University Development and as National General Director of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the Federal Secretariat of Education in Mexico. He has led several international task forces and chaired inter-American and trilateral organisations in the field of higher education and in his original discipline of psychology. The recipient of numerous national and international awards, he is committed to converting the University of Veracruz, into a true 'agency for the social distribution of knowledge'. |
| Chapter 9 The Impact of Service Projects on Micro-Enterprises in Mexican Marginalised Communities | |
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Alejandro Mungaray Lagarda, PhD, is Rector of the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, where he was previously director of the Instituto de Investigaciones Economicas y Sociales, and director of the Facultad de Economía. He has been advisor to the ILO, UNESCO, and OAS. He is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores and of the Mexican Academy of Science, and has written more than 100 academic papers, 23 chapters in books and 25 books as author and co-author, as well as 120 popular science articles. |
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María Dolores Sánchez Soler is currently teaching at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC) and working as an advisor to the Instituto Politécnico Nacional. She has been Director of Research at the Centro Nacional de Evaluación para la Educación Superior and Academic Secretary of the Asociación Nacional de Universidades e Instituciones de Educación Superior. She was also Director General of Extention Activities and Director of the School of Humanities at the UABC. She is author and co-author of 15 books on higher education and has written several academic articles. |
| Chapter 10 What Should We Call 'Civic Service'? A Commentary | |
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Ian Pawlby is head of Connect Youth at the British Council in London. He has contributed to the development of youth policy within the World Bank, the Commonwealth and the European Union. He was closely involved in the design and setting up of the European Voluntary Service programme. Earlier in his career he served as a volunteer in Uganda and worked as a field officer and in the headquarters of Voluntary Service Overseas. He has worked in Nigeria and Venezuela and has a working knowledge of youth structures in several European countries. |
| Chapter 11 'Service' and 'Solidaridad' in South American Spanish | |
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Prof. María Nieves Tapia is founder and director of CLAYSS, the Latin American Centre for Service-learning. She is advisor to the Minister of Education, Argentina, and currently directs the 'Educación Solidaria' (Service-Learning) National Programme. Most of her professional career has focused on the field of service-learning in which she has designed and directed programmes for the Buenos Aires City Secretary of Education and the Argentina Ministry of Education. In 1993, she directed the research for the Presidential Project on Conscientious Objection and Substitutive Social Youth Service. She is also the recipient of several fellowships and awards. |
| Chapter 12 Understanding 'Service': Words in the context of history and culture | |
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Natasha Menon, MA, MSW,
is a third-year doctoral student at the George Warren Brown School of
Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri USA. As
a Research Associate at the Global Service Institute, she is currently
assessing theoretical frameworks relevant to service scholarship development.
Her research and academic interests include international social and
economic development, community participation in decentralised systems,
social capital, and gender concerns.
See Amanda Moore McBride and Michael Sherraden above. |
| Chapter 13 Youth Service for Employment: The Umsobomvu Youth Fund initiative in South Africa | |
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Penny Foley is the Youth Service Programme Manager at the Umsobomvu Youth Fund in South Africa. Prior to that she worked for ten years at the Joint Enrichment Project, a non-governmental youth organisation in Johannesburg. She has extensive experience of working as a volunteer, initially for the Uniting Church in Australia, and later with the South African Council of Churches (SACC). She continues to volunteer in initiatives on unemployment through her membership of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa. |
| Chapter 14 September 11, Service and Activism: A longitudinal study of American high school students | |
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James Youniss is a professor of Psychology at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He is currently interested in integrating concepts of youth development with political socialisation through research on youth activism. His most recent books are Community Service and Social Responsibility in Youth (University of Chicago Press, 1997) and Roots of Civic Identity: International Perspectives on Community Service and Activism in Youth (Cambridge University Press, 1998). Both are co-authored with Miranda Yates. |
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Edward Metz received his doctoral degree in Human Development in 2003 from The Catholic University in Washington, DC, where he is a research associate. His current research focuses on how school-based community service requirements affect adolescents' political and civic development. |
| Chapter 15 Developing Citizenship through Service: A Philippines initiative | |
 | Edna A Co is Associate Professor at the National College of Public Administration and Governance, University of the Philippines. She has served as a consultant with development agencies, such as the United Nations, Christian Aid London, and Oxfam America. |
| Chapter 16 Service-Learning in Argentina | |
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Prof. María Marta Mallea
is deputy director of CLAYSS. She started volunteering at the age of
14 in a school for handicapped children and later graduated as a counsellor
and kindergarten teacher. Since 1990, she has been working in the field
of service-learning. She co-ordinated community service and service-learning
projects at San Martin de Tours School, and from 1999 to 2001 she was
the deputy director of the service-learning programme 'School and Community'
at the Argentinian Ministry of Education. She is currently working on
the Educación Solidaria (Service-Learning) National Programme,
at the Argentinian Ministry of Education.
See Prof María Nieves Tapia above. |
