1st global conference on national youth service

NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE : A Global Perspective Donald J. Eberly, Editor National Service Secretariat Washington, D.C. Based on the advanced papers and discussions held at the conference, National Youth Service : A Global Perspective, held at the Wingspread Conference Center, Wisconsin, 18-21 June 1992.

Contents About this online book, National Youth Service : A Global Perspective Contents page Author's acknowledgements, Donald J. Eberly Trustees of the National Service Secretariat		See also Bibliography on national youth service prepared by Anne Hugo with the assistance of Donald J. Eberly, Michael Sherridan and others, 1996, prepared for the 3rd Global Conference on National Youth Service; see bibliography. 5th Global Conference on National Youth Service, Israel, June 2000 Proceedings of the 4th Global Conference on National Youth Service, United Kingdom, 1998 Proceedings of the 3rd Global Conference on National Youth Service, Papua New Guinea, 1996 Information sources on national youth service, prepared by Anne Hugo and Sheila Allison , and published by the National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies in 1996 for the 3rd Global Conference on National Youth Service
Contents page Introduction 1: National Service Programs and Proposals Botswana Canada China Costa Rica France Germany Great Britain India Nigeria Papua New Guinea Trinidad and Tobago United States Of America Zimbabwe Profiles of National Service 2: Aspects of National Youth Service Civilian Service or Military Service? Nation Building and National Service Universal Principles A Distinction between Service and Employment The Learning Potential of Youth Service Youth as Leaders and as Servers American Examples Outcomes of National Service Dollars and Sense An Agenda for the Future The Conference Communique: A Call to Service Appendix A: Global Conference Participants, June 18-21, 1992 Appendix B: Annotated Bibliography		National Youth Service Conference details National Youth Service : A Global Perspective, held at the Wingspread Conference Center, Wisconsin, 18-21 June 1992. This conference, the first to focus on national service from a global perspective, included participants from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, the Caribbean and the Pacific Islands. The conference goals were 'to get acquainted, to learn about each other's programs and proposals, and to discuss ways of staying in touch in the future. We met and surpassed these goals in that we also identified areas of general agreement and areas of difference about national youth service.' Author's Acknowledgements I thank the W. K. Kellogg Foundation for its financial support of this conference and related endeavors. Kellogg is one of a handful of American foundations that have begun to recognize the importance of youth service in recent years and have supported such initiatives. As a part of the same grant that funded the conference and this booklet, Kellogg gave support to the Secretariat to enable several national service leaders from the Americas and southern Africa to travel abroad to study other national service programs. A special vote of thanks is due The Johnson Foundation and its staff at Wingspread. I have discovered from several visits to Wingspread that The Johnson Foundation has no more interest in hosting ordinary conferences than Frank Lloyd Wright had in building ordinary houses. The Secretariat convened a Wingspread Conference in 1988 to plot out a future for national service in the United States; since that time, The Johnson Foundation has sponsored several dozen conferences on the subject. The influence of these meetings can be found everywhere, from the law that created the U.S. Commission on National and Community Service to the service activities of students in our schools and universities. Professor Jon Van Til of Rutgers University is to be thanked for his candid evaluation of this project and for his continuing counsel, which permits improvements as the project proceeds. Both thanks and admiration are due the conference participants. Many of them travelled long distances to attend a conference conducted in English, which for several conferees was a second or third language. A final note: The word "scheme" as used in much of the English-speaking world has the same meaning as "program" in American usage. Donald J. Eberly
About this online book This work was originally published in printed form. The text of that book has not been altered in any way other than with the 1. addition of hypertext links, and 2. a change of case from capitals to lower case in some headings of chapters. © Copyright 1992 by the National Service Secretariat All rights reserved. Reprinted on this web site with permission from the author on behalf of the copyright holders, National Service Secretariat. National Service Secretariat 5140 Sherier Place, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20016 Originally printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 92-82621 First printed in 1992. [This online reprint published by the National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies, 1997. Online document design by Anne Hugo, for NCYS Trustees of the National Service Secretariat [Note: This information was correct in 1992 at the time of the print publication of this document.] Earl W. Eames, Jr., Chairman Donald J. Eberly, Treasurer and Executive Director Franciena Fowler-Turner James C. Kielsmeier Kathleen C. Merchant, Secretary Charles C. Moskos, Jr. Michael Sherraden John S. Stillman Willard Wirtz