The Changing Nature of Volunteering and the Cross-Border Mobility: Where Does Learning Come from?

Autor/in	Pantea, Maria-Carmen
Titel	The Changing Nature of Volunteering and the Cross-Border Mobility: Where Does Learning Come from?
Quelle	In: Studies in Continuing Education, 35 (2013) 1, S.49-64 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0158-037X
DOI	10.1080/0158037X.2012.677427
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Foreign Countries; Volunteers; Nongovernmental Organizations; Learning; Interviews; Altruism; Nonformal Education; Models; Semi Structured Interviews; Motivation; Educational Mobility; Romania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Ausland; Freiwilliger; Lernen; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Non-formal education; Non formal education; Nichtformale Bildung; Analogiemodell; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Bildungsmobilität; Rumänien
Abstract	This paper revisits the more conventional approaches of volunteering, by looking into the experiences of young people involved in long-term cross-border volunteering in Romania. Drawing on qualitative interviews with European Voluntary Service volunteers, the paper examines how this experience is intersecting their learning trajectories. The research argues that volunteering is more complex than previously assumed and calls for a way to overcome the inertia that positions it as inherently altruistic. It argues that hosting organisations and young people may hold different expectations and notions of volunteering. Whilst organisations seem to understand volunteering as a "gift of time", for young people volunteering is rationally driven and instrumental for learning. The paper argues that cross-border volunteering has a silent educational potential that remains underutilised and grounded in an established rhetoric of learning as inherent when volunteering. Ultimately, the article calls for organisations to be proactive in enhancing their educational potential and to embrace deliberate strategies that support volunteers learning. (Contains 5 notes.) (As Provided).
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