A Social History of Student Volunteering [electronic resource] : Britain and Beyond, 1880-1980 /
Brewis, G.author.
Using a wide range of student testimony and oral history, Georgina Brewis sets in international, comparative context a one-hundred year history of student voluntarism and social action at UK colleges and universities, including such causes as relief for victims of fascism in the 1930s and international development in the 1960s.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-255) and index.
Introduction -- A new era in social service? : student associational culture and the settlement movement -- Christian internationalism, social study and the universities before 1914 -- The student chapter in post-war reconstruction, 1920-1926 -- No longer the privilege of the well-to-do? : student culture, strikes and self-help, 1926-1932 -- Digging with the unemployed : the rise of a student social consciousness, 1932-1939 -- Students in action : students and anti-fascist relief efforts, 1933-1939 -- The students' contribution to victory : voluntary work in the second world war and after -- Experiments in living : student social service and social action, 1950-1965 -- From service to action--rethinking student voluntarism, 1965-1980 -- Conclusions : students and social change, 1880-1980.
Using a wide range of student testimony and oral history, Georgina Brewis sets in international, comparative context a one-hundred year history of student voluntarism and social action at UK colleges and universities, including such causes as relief for victims of fascism in the 1930s and international development in the 1960s.
Higher education.
Education-History.
Educational sociology.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
Social history.
Great Britain-History.
Higher Education.
History of Education.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology of Education.
Social History.
History of Britain and Ireland.