Community Service and Civic Development in Adolescence - Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence.

Autor/inn/en	Reinders, Heinz; Youniss, James
Titel	Community Service and Civic Development in Adolescence - Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence.
Quelle	Aus: Sliwka, Anne (Hrsg.): Citizenship education. Theory - research - practice. Münster, Westfalen u.a.: Waxmann (2006) S. 195-208Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISBN	3-8309-1608-6
Schlagwörter	Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Forschung; Vergleich; Adoleszenz; Schule; Soziale Kompetenz; Beispiel; Toleranz; Verantwortung; Gemeinwesen; Wertorientierung; Theorie; Freiwilliger Hilfsdienst; Deutschland; USA
Abstract	The main purpose of this paper was to introduce some thoughts on the relationship between community service and civic development in adolescence. [The authors] have argued that community service, under specific conditions, can help adolescents to generate a social and moral point of view, help them to experience effectiveness in prosocial behaviour, and prepare the soil for civic engagement in adulthood. [The] principal idea is that community service involving interaction with people in a state of need increases self-awareness in adolescents and gives them a feeling of being actively involved; this, in turn, leads to a more prosocial personality and the readiness for civic engagement. Community service can provide an ideological and organisational framework that links adolescents to the broader sphere of society, and thereby helps them to regard themselves as part of a society's past, present and future. (DIPF/orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2007/2