Delaying the Academy: A Gap Year Education

Autor/in	O'Shea, Joseph
Titel	Delaying the Academy: A Gap Year Education
Quelle	In: Teaching in Higher Education, 16 (2011) 5, S.565-577 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-2517
Schlagwörter	Intellectual Development; Citizenship Education; Experiential Learning; Learning Experience; Individual Development; International Programs; International Studies; Foreign Countries; Values Education; Comparative Analysis; Case Studies; Barriers; Educational Theories; Student Volunteers; Program Descriptions; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mental development; Geistige Entwicklung; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Lernerfahrung; Individuelle Entwicklung; Internationaler Studiengang; Ausland; Werterziehung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie; Großbritannien
Abstract	This investigation serves as one of the first empirical analyses to examine the international volunteering gap year from an educational perspective, concluding an in-depth case study of a prominent gap year organisation in the UK. Contrary to widespread industry promotion of international development, the findings suggest that the experience can be better understood as an educational endeavour for the volunteers. However, the ways and rates at which learning takes place in these experiences are complex and require a synthesis of multiple educational paradigms to capture. The study presents the international volunteering gap year as an experiential educational pedagogy that fuses civic engagement with significant personal, moral, civic and intellectual development. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10