Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

A Social History of Student VolunteeringChristian Internationalism, Social Study and the Universities Before 1914

A Social History of Student Volunteering: Christian Internationalism, Social Study and the... [In 1908, missionary educationist C. F. Andrews considered that “one of the most striking developments of the present century has been the growing connection between students in Colleges and social work among the poor” and noted that the “East is rapidly taking up the new social movement.”1 In the late Victorian and Edwardian periods global networks of educationists, missionaries and social workers ensured that developments in student social service and social study in Britain did not develop in a vacuum, but shaped and were shaped in turn by wider trends. A key conduit for exchange of ideas and practices on social topics was the global student Christian movement, which this chapter addresses. The British Student Christian Movement (SCM) encouraged support for overseas causes alongside local social work, motivated by the belief that British students had a leading role to play in an emergent Christian internationalist movement. Since the late eighteenth century the British had prided themselves on a philanthropic and humanitarian tradition that embraced overseas causes alongside domestic concerns. The idea of empire as a place for charitable aid and voluntary service fed into the British self-image as benevolent rulers since concern for “fellow subjects” overseas was at the core of British imperial ideology.2] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Social History of Student VolunteeringChristian Internationalism, Social Study and the Universities Before 1914

Download PDF
15 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/springer-journals/a-social-history-of-student-volunteering-christian-internationalism-D4HUJIAuq4
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
ISBN
978-1-349-47523-0
Pages
35 –50
DOI
10.1057/9781137363770_3
Publisher site
See Chapter on Publisher Site

Abstract

[In 1908, missionary educationist C. F. Andrews considered that “one of the most striking developments of the present century has been the growing connection between students in Colleges and social work among the poor” and noted that the “East is rapidly taking up the new social movement.”1 In the late Victorian and Edwardian periods global networks of educationists, missionaries and social workers ensured that developments in student social service and social study in Britain did not develop in a vacuum, but shaped and were shaped in turn by wider trends. A key conduit for exchange of ideas and practices on social topics was the global student Christian movement, which this chapter addresses. The British Student Christian Movement (SCM) encouraged support for overseas causes alongside local social work, motivated by the belief that British students had a leading role to play in an emergent Christian internationalist movement. Since the late eighteenth century the British had prided themselves on a philanthropic and humanitarian tradition that embraced overseas causes alongside domestic concerns. The idea of empire as a place for charitable aid and voluntary service fed into the British self-image as benevolent rulers since concern for “fellow subjects” overseas was at the core of British imperial ideology.2]

Published: Nov 4, 2015

Keywords: Social Service; Social Study; Social History; Student Volunteer; Indian Student

There are no references for this article.