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From Service to Action? Students, Volunteering and Community Action in Mid Twentieth-Century Britain
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Direct linkBrewis, Georgina – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2010
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Students, Student Volunteers
Darwen, Jamie; Rannard, Andrea Grace – Education & Training, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the current state of student volunteering in English universities, and show how it contributes to some of the core activities of higher education, including teaching and learning, employability, and public engagement. The paper goes on to describe challenges currently faced by student volunteering,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Foreign Countries, Policy Analysis, Observation
