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A Social History of Student VolunteeringA New Era in Social Service? Student Associational Culture and the Settlement Movement

A Social History of Student Volunteering: A New Era in Social Service? Student Associational... [On his appointment as Bursar at Balliol College Oxford in 1883, Arthur Acland (1847–1926) noted that many of the undergraduates he met were “genuinely anxious to make themselves useful in work for the poor and others.”1 Similarly at the more recently established women’s colleges, “we were all of us (or most of us) serious young women and thought we ought to do some good in the world” as Kathleen Courtney (1878–1974) later reflected.2 From the 1880s students at universities and colleges in Britain and Ireland were increasingly receptive to the new ideas for practical social service that were being put forward by a range of writers and thinkers, and the universities emerged as important pools of volunteers for a range of new social institutions. The student social service movement drew on a varied set of intellectual and religious influences, streams that flowed together to raise the status of volunteering and make personal service at home or overseas incumbent on the educated classes. It is notable that significant developments did not begin until the expansion of higher education in the last quarter of the century, despite key advances in the theory and practice of charity in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Through innovations like the creation of residential settlements in inner-city areas, British universities were central to what Clement Attlee (1883–1967) later described as a “new era in social service.”3] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Social History of Student VolunteeringA New Era in Social Service? Student Associational Culture and the Settlement Movement

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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
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978-1-349-47523-0
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[On his appointment as Bursar at Balliol College Oxford in 1883, Arthur Acland (1847–1926) noted that many of the undergraduates he met were “genuinely anxious to make themselves useful in work for the poor and others.”1 Similarly at the more recently established women’s colleges, “we were all of us (or most of us) serious young women and thought we ought to do some good in the world” as Kathleen Courtney (1878–1974) later reflected.2 From the 1880s students at universities and colleges in Britain and Ireland were increasingly receptive to the new ideas for practical social service that were being put forward by a range of writers and thinkers, and the universities emerged as important pools of volunteers for a range of new social institutions. The student social service movement drew on a varied set of intellectual and religious influences, streams that flowed together to raise the status of volunteering and make personal service at home or overseas incumbent on the educated classes. It is notable that significant developments did not begin until the expansion of higher education in the last quarter of the century, despite key advances in the theory and practice of charity in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Through innovations like the creation of residential settlements in inner-city areas, British universities were central to what Clement Attlee (1883–1967) later described as a “new era in social service.”3]

Published: Nov 4, 2015

Keywords: Social Service; Social History; Student Volunteer; Woman Student; School Mission

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