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Civic engagement, older adults, and inclusion
- Author:
- MCBRIDE Amanda Moore
- Journal article citation:
- Generations, 30(4), Winter 2006, pp.66-71.
- Publisher:
- American Society on Aging
This article focuses on improving organisational capacity as a way of making civic engagement more inclusive for older people. The article highlights the dimensions of: access, expectations, information, incentives and facilitation. It is written from an American perspective.
Advancing the public impact of social work scholarship: perspectives of deans and directors
- Authors:
- MCBRIDE Amanda Moore, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 10(4), 2019, pp.611-621.
- Publisher:
- Society for Social Work and Research
This article offers the perspectives of deans and directors of schools and programs of social work on public impact scholarship. The aim is to identify opportunities for social work to make greater public impact as a discipline. This paper extends the definition of public impact scholarship beyond translation and dissemination to include research questions and methods. This paper reviews institutional challenges to public impact scholarship - including university culture, levers for impact (or lack thereof), and academic values - and discuss promising approaches to the promotion of public impact scholarship through mentorship, direct support, promotion and tenure, and capacity building. (Edited publisher abstract)
Engaging older adult volunteers in national service
- Authors:
- MCBRIDE Amanda Moore, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Research, 36(2), June 2012, pp.101-112.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Volunteering programmes are increasingly designed as interventions to affect the volunteers and the beneficiaries of the volunteers' activities. To achieve the intended impacts for both, programmes need to leverage the volunteers' engagement by meeting their expectations, retaining them, and maximising their perceptions of benefits. Programmatic features that may increase volunteer engagement include supervision, flexibility, assistance, training and recognition. Using longitudinal data from a study of 208 older adult volunteers in Experience Corps, this study tested the facilitative effects of these features on volunteer engagement. Findings indicated that positive perceptions of supervision and assistance predicted exceeded expectations, whereas supervision, flexibility, and recognition predicted retention and benefits. The authors concluded that volunteer management “basics” facilitate volunteer engagement among the sample of older adult volunteers. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.
Youth service: a comprehensive perspective
- Authors:
- MCBRIDE Amanda Moore, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Community Practice, 14(4), 2006, pp.71-89.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philapelphia, USA
The authors construe youth services as a type of long term, intensive volunteerism or civic service, which takes a variety of forms including service learning, national service and international service. These variants have common operational features. The paper summarises what is known about them and their effects on both young people and the communities with which they engage. Directions for future research, including issues of server inclusion and the impacts on the served, are identified. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Limitations of civic service: critical perspectives
- Authors:
- MCBRIDE Amanda Moore, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Development Journal, 41(3), July 2006, pp.307-320.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Community, national, and international service policies and programmes exist worldwide. Anecdotally, their prevalence has increased dramatically in recent years. Their proliferation indicates a tacit presumption of their positive nature. While acknowledging the benefits of these programmes, the authors call attention to the possible limitations of service, including elitism, state interests, and imperialism. The authors emphasize implications for policy, practice, and research.
Civic service worldwide: defining a field, building a knowledge base
- Authors:
- MCBRIDE Amanda Moore, SHERRADEN Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 33(4; Supplement), December 2004, pp.8s-21s.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Civic service appears to be a global phenomenon. The growth of service may warrant a distinct field of study in which a comparative knowledge base could inform development and implementation of policies and programmes. In this article, the authors summarize results of a global assessment of civic service. Searching by country and using information from organizational memberships, publications, and the Internet, 210 civic service programs were identified in 57 countries. This study has many limitations, raising more questions than it answers. Nonetheless, it is the first worldwide empirical glimpse of service, shedding light on several key questions: What are the current status and forms of civic service? What are its structures, goals, and effects? This introductory article of the special issue frames these questions for consideration by the authors, who identify historical and cultural determinants, forms, and mediators of civic service in different regions of the world.
Measuring international service outcomes: implications for international social work field placements
- Authors:
- LOUGH Benjamin J., MCBRIDE Amanda Moore, SHERRADEN Margaret S.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Education, 48(3), 2012, pp.479-499.
- Publisher:
- Council on Social Work Education
International field placements are a unique educational opportunity for social work students to develop the skills they need for social work practice in a globalised world. They are becoming increasingly common, with approximately 20-30% of all schools of social work in the United States reporting situating students in field placements abroad. This article reports on the International Volunteer Impacts Survey (IVIS), a 48-item survey instrument that measures major outcomes of international service. The article starts by summarising the expected outcomes of international service: internationally related life plans; civic engagement; international social contacts; and intercultural competence. The IVIS was validated using a sample of 983 respondents (325 prospective volunteers, 291 returned volunteers, and 367 comparison nonvolunteers). Exploratory factor analysis procedures were used to assess factor structure and reliability of major outcomes of international service including international contacts, open-mindedness, international understanding, intercultural relations, life plans, civic activism, community engagement, media attentiveness, and financial contributions. Further development of the IVIS and the implications for using it to assess student outcomes in international social work field placements are discussed.