A social history of student volunteering
Subtitle: Britain and beyond, 1880-1980
By: by Georgina Brewis
Series: Historical studies in education
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781137370136
Subjects: Student movements; History; College students; Political activity; Voluntarism
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A new era in social service? : student associational culture and the settlement movement; title: Christian internationalism, social study and the universities before 1914; title: The student chapter in post-war reconstruction, 1920-1926; title: No longer the privilege of the well-to-do? : student culture, strikes and self-help, 1926-1932; title: Digging with the unemployed : the rise of a student social consciousness, 1932-1939; title: Students in action : students and anti-fascist relief efforts, 1933-1939; title: The students' contribution to victory : voluntary work in the second world war and after; title: Experiments in living : student social service and social action, 1950-1965; title: From service to action; title: rethinking student voluntarism, 1965-1980; title: Conclusions : students and social change, 1880-1980.