1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463190803321

Autore

Bass Melissa

Titolo

The politics and civics of national service [[electronic resource] ] : lessons from the Civilian Conservation Corps, Vista, and AmeriCorps / / Melissa Bass

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, [2013]

ISBN

1-283-93977-0

0-8157-2381-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (599 p.)

Disciplina

361.6

361.973

Soggetti

National service - United States

Voluntarism - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface. 1. Introduction: National service as public policy for democracy -- 2. Citizenship and the elements of policy design -- Part I. The civilian conservation corps. 3. The CCC's roots and relationships -- 4. The CCC's purpose and government's role -- 5. The CCC's tools, rules, and targets -- II. Volunteers in service to America. 6. VISTA's roots and relationships -- 7. VISTA's purpose and government's role -- 8. VISTA's tools, rules, and targets -- III. AmeriCorps. 9. AmeriCorps's roots and relationships -- 10. AmeriCorps's purpose and government's role -- 11. AmeriCorps's policy tools, rules, and targets -- IV. Conclusion. 12. Making sense of the past and its lessons for the future -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt created America's first domestic national service program: the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). As part of this program-the largest and most highly esteemed of its kind-nearly three million unemployed men worked to rehabilitate, protect, and build the nation's natural resources. It demonstrated what citizens and government could accomplish together. Yet despite its success, the CCC was short lived.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463303203321

Titolo

Writing out of limbo [[electronic resource] ] : international childhoods, global nomads and third culture kids / / edited by Gene H. Bell-Villada and Nina Sichel ; with Faith Eidse and Elaine Neil Orr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011

ISBN

1-283-43603-5

9786613436030

1-4438-3408-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (496 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Bell-VilladaGene H. <1941->

SichelNina

EidseFaith

SchellenbergCharity <1956->

OrrElaine Neil

Disciplina

305.23086

Soggetti

Social interaction in children - Foreign countries

Children - Foreign countries - Attitudes

Parents - Employment - Foreign countries

Intercultural communication - Foreign countries

Affiliation (Psychology)

Identity (Philosophical concept)

Social interaction

Globalization

Mennonites - Congo

Missionaries - Congo

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; DEFINITIONS; INTRODUCTION; PART 1; THIRD-CULTURE KIDS; CROSS-CULTURAL KIDS; RAISED IN THE MARGIN OF THE MOSAIC; EXPLAINING DIFFERENCES; PART 2; FINDING HOME; REFRAMING; JUBILEE; THE COLORS AND CULTURE OF HOME; A CANARY



SINGS ON THE ROAD TO ATHENS; ARTIST IN TRANSIT; RETURNING TO MY PARENTS' FOREIGN "HOME"; CONTINENTAL SHIFTS; OUTSIDER; PART 3; LEMONADE FOR THE GRINGA; VIGNETTES FROM ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE; THE RELIGIOUS LIVES OF ADULT MISSIONARY KIDS; ECHOES OF LOSS; FOUR THIRD CULTURE KIDS; MEMORY, LANGUAGE, AND IDENTITY; FINNISH EXPATRIATE FAMILIES AND THEIR CHILDREN

DOMESTIC STUDENTS OR FOREIGN? WHEN U.S.-GLOBAL NOMADS RETURN "HOME" TO COLLEGEGLOBAL NOMADS; PART 4; DOCUMENTING MOBILITY; KHARTOUM ROMEO, DELHI JULIET; "I KNOW WHO I AM"; THE STRANGER SELF; ON JEAN RHYS, BARBARA KINGSOLVER, AND MYSELF; COLONIAL MOTHERS AND COSMOPOLITAN THIRD CULTURE KIDS; CHECKED BAGGAGE; ON MAKING BRATS; PART 5; LE FRANÇAIS; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

Crossing borders and boundaries, countries and cultures, they are the children of the military, diplomatic corps, international business, education and missions communities. They are called Third Culture Kids or Global Nomads, and the many benefits of their lifestyle - expanded worldview, multiplicity of languages, tolerance for difference - are often mitigated by recurring losses - of relationships, of stability, of permanent roots. They are part of an accelerating demographic that is only r...