This paper analyses the theme of international service (or international volunteering as it is perhaps better known in the UK) in relation to ideas about globalization and development and presents a framework for future research. Agencies such as the United States Peace Corps, the United Nations Volunteers or a range of specialised non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have long promoted volunt...

The researchers found that for middleand upper-middle-class high school students “resumepadding” is one of the motivating factors driving the increase in volunteering. According to Dr. Friedland, “Much of the reported volunteerism was shaped by the perception that voluntary and civic activity is necessary to get into any college; and the better the college (or, more precisely, the higher the pe...

In western countries, one of the challenges facing ageing populations is an absence of social roles. One response to this is to volunteer, with evidence suggesting that this assigns meaning to the lives of older people and enhances health and well-being. This holds potential significance for older people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and particularly those from Asian culture...

The theoretical inspiration for this paper has come from anthropological conceptualizations of personal narrative and the relationship between the notions of travel, culture, and reciprocity. I consider this in relation to the construction of cultural meaning by volunteers through the medium of the Internet. The present analysis primarily focuses on how volunteers attempt to create coherent nar...

This paper explores renewed possibilities for volunteering in develop ment cooperation, based on the possibilities for ubiquitous networking made possible by new digital technologies. Its preparation has been prompted by two separate yet related processes. First, the revisiting of the principles and practices of technical co operation and capacity building underway at UNDP, for which the recent...

This paper is concerned with how refugees who work as volunteers with a refugee organization talk about themselves and their work. A Foucauldian Discourse Analytic approach is employed in order to explore how participants construct themselves as both refugees and volunteers, the discourses they draw on, and how this impacts on the possible ways-of-being open to refugees. The findings indicate a...

Abstract This paper explores how ethnographic approaches to third sector and nonprofit studies allow for context-based understandings of the links between volunteering development. Drawing from our ethnographies in Sierra Leone, Burundi Philippines, we argue that methods could tease out local ideologies practices volunteer work can challenge knowledge monopolies over is understood and, later, t...

The nature of the relationship between time people spend on paid work and volunteering remains debated in social sciences. Time constraint theory suggests a negative because can allocate only as much to their responsibilities permit. However, integration more complex inverse U-shaped not limits people’s free but also plays key role integration. Departing from these competing theories, this stud...

Voluntarily work is very significant. Due to the significance of such work, researchers explored attitudes outstanding students at Arab Academic College for Education in Israel and other colleges towards voluntarily during COVID-19 crisis. Students filled two scales. The first scale included 34 items. It collected data on motives volunteering. second involved 10 about benefits volunteering futu...