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Author: Robert A. Rhoads
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0791435229

Community Service and Higher Learning: Explorations of the Caring Self

In Community Service and Higher Learning, Robert A. Download Community Service and Higher Learning: Explorations of the Caring Self from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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 ed Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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