Character, Civic Renewal and Service Learning for Democratic Citizenship in Higher Education

Aliu, John

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8527.2005.00298.x

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“…More recent government investment in student volunteering has been channelled through the varied programmes of v, the National Young Volunteers' Service. This funding, combined with a new recognition of the potential value of volunteering for students' personal development, employability and for improving university-community relations, led to significant developments (Annette 2005). The HEACF funding was used in a variety of ways, both within students' unions and university departments such as careers and employability, student services or access and community engagement (Squirrell 2009: 63-64).…”

Section: University Support For Volunteering: a Short Historymentioning

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University Support for Student Volunteering in England: Historical Development and Contemporary Value

Brewis

Holdsworth

2011

J Acad Ethics

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This article draws on a major study of student volunteering based on case studies of six Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) selected to represent the diversity of the higher education sector in England. The study finds that students contribute significantly to university life and to the wider community through both formal and informal volunteering. However in this paper we consider the challenges and problems with the organisation of student volunteering. Our research finds that students who were supported by their university to volunteer reported better experiences of volunteering and identified greater impacts on their personal development, soft skills, employability and community awareness. In this paper we challenge the tendency of some policy makers and practitioners to view student volunteering as an automatic 'win, win, win'-for students, for universities and for communities. Rather we explore how without adequate support, management and opportunities for reflection and placing volunteering in wider social context, student volunteering can fail to benefit any of these groups. The paper outlines the development of institutional support for volunteering by students before assessing the value such support has for student volunteers today.

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Section: University Support For Volunteering: a Short Historymentioning

confidence: 98%

University Support for Student Volunteering in England: Historical Development and Contemporary Value

Brewis

Holdsworth

2011

J Acad Ethics

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“…However the observation that universities share in students' learning about citizenship and responsibility is not one that has been traditionally central to HE ethos in the UK (Annette, 2005). As one Pro-Vice-Chancellor remarked, the theory is that by providing volunteering opportunities this will engender students' awareness of their responsibilities, yet in practice there is less evidence of how this may be achieved (Kahne and Westheimer, 2006).…”

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Volunteering, choice and control: a case study of higher education student volunteering

Holdsworth

Brewis²

2013

Journal of Youth Studies

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There has been a step change around youth volunteering in the UK in recent years as this once unheralded and taken for granted activity has moved more centre stage, particularly as a key strand of recent Government initiatives directed towards welfare reform, employment and education policies. This article uses the case study of student volunteering to explore the paradox inherent in articulations of volunteering in policy discourses that emphasise self-responsibility for employability and community cohesion. We review the tensions inherent in escalating the expectation that young people should volunteer through situating volunteering as a conduit of control society, and consider how the promotion of participation destabilizes the capacity for sovereign action and choice. Drawing on qualitative research with both HE stakeholders and students, we map out the external policy drivers that universities are reacting to in promoting volunteering, and students' response to these initiatives. Our analysis demonstrates that students resist the expectation that they should volunteer if this is interpreted as devaluing their engagement. Both students and stakeholders recognise that the promotion of volunteering should seek to align institutional practices to promote and support volunteering with young people's own expectations and aspirations.

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“…The second report from the Advisory Group on Citizenship, also chaired by Bernard Crick, provided the basis for establishing a provision for learning about active citizenship and civil renewal within schools and for 16-19-year-olds in training programs. It also led to the creation of a Civil Renewal Office in the British Home Office, which piloted programs for adult learning for active citizenship (Annette, 2005).…”

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Developing ‘emancipatory interest’: learning to create social change

Caspersz

Olaru

2013

Higher Education Research & Development

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Developing an emancipatory interest enables individuals to free themselves from the intersubjective or commonly held meanings that dominate their understanding of their current world, and subsequently change their practices. We argue that developing an emancipatory interest is critical in learning to create social change, that is, wanting to create a better world and society for self and others. In this paper we provide an insight on how to do this by drawing on research about a learning program with Australian university students. A semistructured interview schedule using eight broad questions was administered between March and May 2011 with students involved in the program. The discussion is informed by Habermas' concept of the life-world and the use of the data analysis tool Leximancer.

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Character, Civic Renewal and Service Learning for Democratic Citizenship in Higher Education

Cited by 59 publications

References 16 publications

University Support for Student Volunteering in England: Historical Development and Contemporary Value

University Support for Student Volunteering in England: Historical Development and Contemporary Value

Volunteering, choice and control: a case study of higher education student volunteering

Developing ‘emancipatory interest’: learning to create social change

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