| 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. |
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