Title The call of service : a witness to idealism / Robert Coles.

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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1993.

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New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction	361.973 C679	Check Shelf
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Description	xxviii, 306 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-300) and index.
Contents	1. Method -- 2. Kinds of service -- Social and political struggle -- Community servie -- Personal gestures and encounters -- Charity -- Religiously sanctioned action -- Service to country -- 3. Satisfaction -- Something done, someone reached -- Moral purpose -- Personal affirmation -- Stoic endurance -- A boost to success -- Interlude: mentoring -- 4. Hazards -- Weariness and resignation -- Cynicism -- Arrogance, anger and bitterness -- Despair -- Depression ("burnout") -- 5. Doing and learning -- 6. Young idealism -- 7. Older idealism -- Interlude: what they mean to us -- 8. Consequences -- The longer run -- The larger realm -- Epilogue.
Summary	Sheds light on the individual urge toward idealistic action--what inspires and sustains it, how it is expressed, and why it is necessary.
Subject	Social service -- United States.
	Volunteer workers in social service -- United States.
	Voluntarism -- United States.
	Vocation.
	Social service. (OCoLC)fst01123192
	Vocation. (OCoLC)fst01168466
	Voluntarism. (OCoLC)fst01168976
	Volunteer workers in social service. (OCoLC)fst01169103
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Social work.
	Volunteer work.
	Community engagement.
	Service learning.
	Social Work.
	Volunteers.
	Occupations.
	United States.
Other Form:	Online version: Coles, Robert. Call of service. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1993 (OCoLC)623723652
ISBN	0395636477
	9780395636473
	0395710847 (pbk.)
	9780395710845 (pbk.)

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