Community Service in Adolescence: Implications for Moral-Political Awareness.

Autor/in	Yates, Miranda
Titel	Community Service in Adolescence: Implications for Moral-Political Awareness.
Quelle	(1995), (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adolescent Development; Adolescents; Citizen Participation; Citizenship Responsibility; Developmental Tasks; Emotional Development; Identification (Psychology); Moral Values; Perception; School Community Relationship; Self Actualization; Service Learning; Social Problems; Social Responsibility; Youth + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Entwicklungsaufgabe; Gefühlsbildung; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Wahrnehmung; Self actualisation; Selbstverwirklichung; Service-Learning; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Soziale Verantwortung
Abstract	This paper provides an overview of research on community service in adolescence and outlines a theoretical approach that relates service participation to identity development. After building the case that the 1990s has been a period of increased interest in the prosocial effects of service participation among school-aged youth, this paper discusses the scope of this interest and describes the current state of the research literature. The report then provides a framework for organizing the literature by delineating three concepts associated with service: agency, which refers to findings that associate service with personal directedness and increased self-understanding; social relatedness, which pertains to findings that address the social characteristic of service; and moral-political awareness, which refers to findings that relate service to morality and civic behavior. Taken together, the findings suggest that experiences of service pertain to the process of trying to understand oneself with social-historical reality and helps youth to feel that they can actively "make history," rather than simply "live history," and that service participants come to view themselves as political agents in improving societal conditions. Future directions for developmental research in this area are also discussed. Contains 33 references. (DR)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC