Volonterski rad za vrijeme studiranja može unaprijediti razne vještine studenata i pritom ih oblikovati u individue spremne za izazove koje donosi budući profesionalni svijet. Brojnim istraživanjima ...potvrđena je dobrobit volontiranja tijekom studiranja, ali i za buduće izazove. U ovom članku će, iz perspektive predsjednice Fakultetskog odbora svih studenata Medicinskog fakulteta u Rijeci, biti prikazani neki od aktivnih projekata ove neprofitne udruge, kao i opus iskustva i vještina koje studenti mogu steći kroz njih. Također, bit će prikazan pozitivan značaj volontiranja na psihofizički razvoj, zajedno s načinom na koji ono utječe na napredak društva, sklad zajednice i osobni rast.
Volontering during studies can improve students’ various skills and, at the same time, shape them into individuals ready for the challenges of the future professional world. Numerous studies have confirmed that volunteering is beneficial while studying and later on in facing future challenges (the benefit of volunteering during studies as well as for future challenges). In this article, from the perspective of the president of the Faculty Board of all students of the Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka, some of the active projects of this non-profit association will be presented, as well as the wealth of experience and skills that students can acquire through them. Also, the positive significance of volunteering for psycho-physical development will be shown, along with the way it affects the progress of society, community harmony, and personal growth.
The current research aims to: 1- Constructing a scale for Tendencies towards the volunteer work among preparatory stage students in Mosul City. 2- Identifying the degree of the tendencies of ...fourth-grade female students in the preparatory stage towards the volunteer work. The research sample consisted of (400) female students of the preparatory stage of the fourth grade in its scientific and literary branches in the city of Mosul / the left side and to achieve the research aims, the researchers built the scale of tendency towards the voluntary work for the preparatory school female students in which contained in its final version (43) items and the two researchers verified the psychometric properties and the stability of the tool by the method of repeating the test, and its percentage reached (80%), after that, the scale was applied on the members of the sample, and the results of the statistical analysis showed that the research sample showed superiority in its general level in the tendency towards volunteer work. Researchers, counselors and institutions related to the social development, and the proposals were to conduct a study to apply the scale of tendency towards the volunteer work in to other samples.
This article draws on an ethnographic study of volunteer work in a German refugee shelter to explore how individual experiences of meaningfulness are intertwined with shifting discursive and ...organisational contexts. At the beginning of the so‐called refugee crisis, societal discourses portrayed this volunteer work as extraordinarily meaningful – a state we capture through the metaphor of ‘overflow’. This ‘overflow’ mobilised volunteers and was an important point of reference for framing their work experiences as meaningful. Later, shifting discursive and organisational contexts challenged their framings. Instead of letting go, however, the ‘overflow’ triggered volunteers to reframe their experience in dysfunctional ways in order to sustain their sense of meaningfulness. This paper reveals how shifting societal discourses feed into individual experiences of meaningfulness, shows how individuals may respond to such shifts in problematic ways and theorises the nature of such shifts in drawing on Swidler’s notion of settling contexts.
At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors’ agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and ...civil society. While there is much discussion of localization, decolonization and ‘shifting power’ in civil society collaborations in development, the debate thus far centers on the aid system. This book directs attention to CSOs as drivers of development in various contexts that we refer to as the Global South. This book take a transformative stance, reimagining roles, relations and processes. It does so from five complementary angles: (1) Southern CSOs reclaiming the lead, 2) displacement of the North–South dyad, (3) Southern-centred questions, (4) new roles for Northern actors, and (5) new starting points for collaboration. The book relativizes international collaboration, asking INGOs, Northern CSOs, and their donors to follow Southern CSOs’ leads, recognizing their contextually geared perspectives, agendas, resources, capacities, and ways of working. Based in 19 empirically grounded chapters, the book also offers an agenda for further research, design, and experimentation. Emphasizing the need to ‘Start from the South’ this book thus re-imagines and re-centers Civil Society collaborations in development, offering Southern-centred ways of understanding and developing relations, roles, and processes, in theory and practice. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Funded by Wageningen University.
Outside of visible moments of mass mobilization, ongoing latent work, such as direct service and mutual aid, is a long-standing tradition in social movements. Yet, like all labor, personal digital ...devices have changed the norms and practices of direct service social movement work. In this article, as situated in the technology–media–movement complex (TMMC), I analyze qualitative interview data ( N = 26) with volunteers from a yearlong ethnographic project at an abortion fund hotline in the reproductive justice movement in the US South. To name hotline volunteers’ digital care labor, I offer the term immaterial intimacy to describe its ubiquitous, ephemeral, and intimate nature. I argue immaterial intimate labor enabled the organization to provide a responsive service, but relied on individualized digital volunteer work, existing within gendered and neoliberal norms. I discuss and question the use of personal digital technologies for direct service volunteer work in contemporary social movements.
Crowdsourcing (CS) by cultural and heritage institutions engage volunteers in online projects without monetary compensation. Uncertainty concerning online volunteer motivation has led to a growing ...body of academic research. This study contributes to that debate, by extending focus to CS volunteer work in nonprofit cultural institutions where no monetary benefit is offered to volunteers. This study examines motivations of high performing volunteers in a newspaper digitisation CS project, initiated by the National Library of Australia. Volunteers are motivated by personal, collective, and external factors, and these motivations change over time. Volunteers initially show intrinsic motivations, though both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations play a critical role in their continued participation. Volunteer contributions range from data shaping (e.g., correcting digitised optical character recognition data) to knowledge shaping (e.g., shaping historical data through tagging and commenting, but also through development of norms and social roles). The locus of motivation (intrinsic or extrinsic) also changes with different kinds of contributions. The distinction between data and knowledge shaping contributions, and the locus and focus of motivation behind these activities, has implications for the design of CS systems. Design for improved usability through cognitive and physical system affordances and development of social mechanisms for ongoing participation is discussed.
unheard voices Stoecker, Randy; Tryon, Elizabeth A; Hilgendorf, Amy
2009, 20090821, 2009-08-25
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Service learning has become an institutionalized practice in higher education. Students are sent out to disadvantaged communities to paint, tutor, feed, and help organize communities. But while the ...students gain from their experiences, the contributors toThe Unheard Voicesask, "Does the community?"
This volume explores the impact of service learning on a community, and considers the unequal relationship between the community and the academy. Using eye-opening interviews with community-organization staff members,The Unheard Voiceschallenges assumptions about the effectiveness of service learning. Chapters offer strong critiques of service learning practices from the lack of adequate training and supervision, to problems of communication and issues of diversity. The book's conclusion offers ways to improve service learning so that future endeavors can be better at meeting the needs of the communities and the students who work in them.
'Resilience' has become one of the first fully fledged academic and political buzzwords of the 21st century. Within this context, Geoffrey DeVerteuil proposes a more critically engaged and ...conceptually robust version, applying it to the conspicuous but now residual clusters of inner-city voluntary sector organisations deemed 'service hubs'.
The process of resilience is compared across ten service hubs in three complex but different global inner-city regions - London, Los Angeles and Sydney - in response to the threat of gentrification-induced displacement. DeVerteuil shows that resilience can be about holding on to previous gains but also about holding out for transformation. The book is the first to move beyond theoretical works on 'resilience' and offers a combined conceptual and empirical approach that will interest urban geographers, social planners and researchers in the voluntary sector.
This study explores how motivation and incentives impact college students’ volunteer service within civil practices. Utilizing a factor analysis data model, we constructed factor loadings for ...volunteer service work, rotated the factor matrix, and estimated the correlation coefficients of factors using regression methods. Our “motivation-incentive” analytical model frames this research, alongside proposed hypotheses. Descriptive analysis of the sample confirmed these hypotheses. Results reveal a significant path coefficient of 0.224 (p < 0.001) for engagement on continued volunteering willingness, underscoring engagement’s positive influence. Furthermore, positive emotions in volunteering motivation significantly correlate with engagement and sustained service willingness (coefficients: 0.315, 0.745, 0.269; p < 0.01), serving as a mediator. This study elucidates the mechanisms of influence in volunteer work, offering theoretical guidance for enhancing college students’ participation in civilized practice volunteer services.
