Research Catalog

Title

Schools with heart : voluntarism and public education / Daniel J. Brown.

Author

Brown, Daniel J., 1941-

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998.

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Details

Description

xvi, 204 pages; 25 cm

Summary

• In Schools with Heart, Daniel Brown explores voluntarism by using original data gathered from 185 interviews with public school principals, teachers, and volunteers, many of whom worked in schools known for their volunteer programs. Supplementing these data from other studies, this careful inquiry finds that volunteers offer much to schools. But who are school volunteers? Why do they offer their time? And how and why do schools accommodate them? The book addresses these questions by showing that school voluntarism is seen as a special bridge between primordial institutions (such as families) and modern institutions (such as public schools).
• By using various perspectives and relying primarily on rational choice theory, the author shows that the use of benevolence in schools offers a vision of how education may be changed. He presents some recommendations for policies that would alter the balance between public and private support to education.

Subject

• Volunteer workers in education > Canada
• Voluntarism > Canada
• Public schools > Canada
• Volunteer workers in education > United States
• Voluntarism > United States
• Public schools > United States
• Public schools
• Voluntarism
• Volunteer workers in education
• Ehrenamtlicher Mitarbeiter
• Schule
• Schule
• Canada
• United States
• Nordamerika
• USA
• Kanada
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-199) and index.

Contents

Is Voluntarism Important? -- Three Problems of Public Education -- The Story of the Little School -- Notes on This Monograph -- Voluntarism and Educational Policies -- Experiences with School Voluntarism -- School Gifts, Givers, and Giving -- The Good Deeds -- Who Volunteers in Schools? -- Why Do They Give? -- Predispositions for Individual Giving -- What Is Benevolence? -- Some Effects of Benevolence -- Effects on Students -- Effects on Volunteers and Others -- The Generation of Capital -- Issues of Student Equity -- Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Setting -- Neighbourhood Cultural Context -- Other Neighbourhood Features -- The Administration of Voluntary Public Schools -- The Administrator's Role in Voluntarism -- Recruitment of Benefactors -- Management of School Volunteer Programs -- Voluntary Public School Organization -- Voluntary and Paid Labour -- Teachers' Perspectives on Voluntarism -- Extensive Organizational Efforts -- The School and Its Environment -- What Is a Voluntary Public School? -- Generalizations and Policies -- The Voluntary Public School as a Bridging Institution -- Individual Benevolence and Community Construction -- Organizational Action and Reconstitution -- Two Social Galaxies -- Some Theories of Voluntarism -- Sociobiology and Helping -- Egoism and Altruism -- Normative Action and Benevolence -- Rational Choice and Voluntarism -- Rational Choice and Other Theories -- The Dynamics of School Voluntarism -- Educational Policy: Macro and Micro -- Government and Benevolence.

ISBN

• 0813390842
• 9780813390840

LCCN

98018416

OCLC

• ocm38964123
• 38964123
• SCSB-1124221

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library