Community service and higher learning : explorations of the caring self

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Label

Community service and higher learning : explorations of the caring self

Title remainder

explorations of the caring self

Statement of responsibility

Robert A. Rhoads

Creator

• Rhoads, Robert A

Subject

• Community and college -- United States
• Education, Higher -- United States -- Aims and objectives
• Student service -- United States
• Student volunteers in social service -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

"In Community Service and Higher Learning, Robert A. Rhoads examines the experiences of students as they commit themselves to community service during their college years. The author explores how a student's sense of self may be challenged through involvement in the lives of others within the context of community service relationships. Central to his "explorations of the self" is the role "caring" plays as a source of self understanding and identity development." "Drawing upon classic symbolic interactionists such as George Herbert Mead as well as contemporary feminists such as Carol Gilligan and Nel Noddings, Rhoads suggests ways in which the self might be reconsidered with an ethic-of-care philosophy at its core. He argues that higher education ought to play a key role in fostering more relational and caring individuals and that community service offers a pedagogical opportunity for encouraging the development of more caring selves. He maintains that as society becomes increasingly complex, diverse, and potentially fragmented, caring becomes a more important facet of one's sense of self than perhaps ever before. It is only through an increasing concern for the other (the essence of caring) that one is able to bridge the relational barriers posed by the postmodern condition."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DCC

Government publication

government publication level undetermined

Index

index present

LC call number

LC220.5

LC item number

.R56 1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography