Exploring Adolescent Altruism: British Young People's Involvement in Voluntary Work and Campaigning

Roker, Debi; Player, Katie; Coleman, John

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511751820.005

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“…Finally, their activity gave them access to the experience of civic agency. A similar pattern of themes emerged in a study of British volunteers (Roker, Player, & Coleman, 1999). So participation leads to an awareness of social problems, the opportunity to try to alleviate them, and the growth, through experience, of a realistic assessment of what an individual can do.…”

Section: The Antecedents Of Participationsupporting

confidence: 52%

Constructing the Citizen

Haste

2004

Political Psychology

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Discussions of citizenship and citizenship education have been conducted largely within the worldview of stable, Western societies and have been based on psychological models that emphasize individual cognition. The concepts of citizenship that evolved in this context have become taken for granted. But during the past decade, different concepts of citizenship have arisen from emergent democracies, from societies in transition, from the dissolution of the left-right spectrum in Western society, and from a changing perspective inpsychological theory that attends to language and to social and cultural context. These developments have implications for defining the goals of citizenship education and for formulating educational programs, particularly in relation to identity, positioning, narratives, and efficacy.

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Section: The Antecedents Of Participationsupporting

confidence: 52%

Constructing the Citizen

Haste

2004

Political Psychology

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“…or the UK~Roker, Player, & Coleman, 1999b!. Despite this, two UK studies found that around 75% of young people reported having been involved in some voluntary action~Lister, Middleton, & Smith, 2001;Roker et al, 1999b!, although in many cases this was probably not as involved as the community service required of students in much of the USA.…”

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Community service or activism as an identity project for youth

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2007

Journal Community Psychology

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When young people are active in their communities, they not only help create a thriving society but also help create themselves. This article examines the factors that may lead people to take on community service and activism and the struggles and satisfactions associated with it. To begin, I will present a framework for analyzing life choices. This framework will then be used to try and understand why some people become engaged in activities intended to improve the well-being of others or the collective. The article finishes by suggesting ways to encourage young people to participate in making better communities. IDENTITY PROJECTS: UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE'S LIVESAs active agents, we go about the business of creating our lives through what may be called "identity projects." Identity projects are schemas we hold for how to project

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“…Independent surveys conducted during the 1990s have shown that over 50%, and sometimes 65%, of U.S. youth claim to have performed service during the past year, with about 25% to 30% claiming to have performed service on a regular basis (Hodgkinson & Weitzman, 1997;Nolin, Chaney, Chapman, & Chandler, 1997;Raskoff & Sundeen, 1999). Political engagement writ large to include youth service, is equally evident in Canada (Pancer & Pratt, 1999) and the United Kingdom (Roker, Player, & Coleman, 1999).…”

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Youth Civic Engagement in the Twenty‐First Century

Youniss

Bales

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J of Research on Adolesc

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We enter the 21st century contending with the end of the Cold War's legacy of political uncertainty, expecting youth to play a significant part in the search for new principles that will bring about stability in the world political order. In forging the future, youth will have to collaborate with adults, but on terms more fitting of the historical circumstances that lie ahead than those of the past. This was the framework adopted by a group of social scientists who held several discussions to reflect on the issues and opportunities that bear on youth's civic engagement and development in the century that has just opened. The present article describes the results of those conRequests for reprints should be sent to James Youniss, Catholic

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Exploring Adolescent Altruism: British Young People's Involvement in Voluntary Work and Campaigning

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Youth Civic Engagement in the Twenty‐First Century

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