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A Social History of Student VolunteeringIntroduction

A Social History of Student Volunteering: Introduction [University students have been a significant cultural force in modern Britain. Popular culture abounds with student stereotypes, from the gown-wearing nineteenth-century scholar to the undergraduates of the Brideshead era and the bearded radicals of the 1960s and 1970s. Yet our understanding of what it was like to be a student over the period 1880–1980 remains limited. The eminent historian of education Harold Silver recently repeated his call for academic work to pay greater attention to the student experience.1 Although new studies have begun to address students’ lives, interest in the more overtly political activities of universities and colleges has meant other forms of student social action have been neglected. A closer look at extracurricular activities reveals that participation in voluntary action— ranging from support for university settlements in the 1880s to antifascist relief in the 1930s and Student Community Action (SCA) in the 1970s—was a common experience for successive generations of higher education students. Indeed the very emergence of a distinct student movement in twentieth-century Britain can be ascribed to the unifying force of social service and social action across a higher education system otherwise noted for its heterogeneity.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Social History of Student VolunteeringIntroduction

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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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[University students have been a significant cultural force in modern Britain. Popular culture abounds with student stereotypes, from the gown-wearing nineteenth-century scholar to the undergraduates of the Brideshead era and the bearded radicals of the 1960s and 1970s. Yet our understanding of what it was like to be a student over the period 1880–1980 remains limited. The eminent historian of education Harold Silver recently repeated his call for academic work to pay greater attention to the student experience.1 Although new studies have begun to address students’ lives, interest in the more overtly political activities of universities and colleges has meant other forms of student social action have been neglected. A closer look at extracurricular activities reveals that participation in voluntary action— ranging from support for university settlements in the 1880s to antifascist relief in the 1930s and Student Community Action (SCA) in the 1970s—was a common experience for successive generations of higher education students. Indeed the very emergence of a distinct student movement in twentieth-century Britain can be ascribed to the unifying force of social service and social action across a higher education system otherwise noted for its heterogeneity.]

Published: Nov 4, 2015

Keywords: International Student; Voluntary Action; Social History; Student Voluntarism; Social Education

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