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Chuan Chen, Fei; Hwan Shyr, Yi – SAGE Open, 2021
This study aimed to determine how the learning stimulation and intrinsic motivation of students affect their culture sharing in volunteering via general altruism and intention. Stratified random sampling was used, and 850 invitation questionnaires were sent to participants, of whom 264 returned valid questionnaires (return rate, 31.06%), which…
Descriptors: Student Volunteers, Volunteer Training, Study Abroad, Cultural Awareness
Taylor, Spencer A. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological dissertation in practice (DIP) study was to find out what peer-to-peer volunteer tutors value in order to articulate ways to provide better support to students in their discovery and development of authentic individual and campus servant leadership values that are realized or learned while…
Descriptors: Tutors, Church Related Colleges, Student Volunteers, Peer Teaching
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Berei, Emese Beáta – Education Sciences, 2020
The aim of this research is to emphasize the importance of education for the philanthropic responsibilities of students. The basic term of the explanatory research is corporate social responsibility, adapted for higher education institutions--the philanthropic responsibilities of students, their implication on charity organization memberships or…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, College Students, Student Volunteers, Student Motivation
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Bailey, Andrew W.; Fernando, Irene K. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2011
"Voluntourism" refers to the use of "discretionary time and income to travel out of the sphere of regular activity to assist others in need" (McGehee & Santos, 2005, p. 760). These experiences have been shown to raise consciousness and increase interest in activism (McGehee, 2002; Wearing, 2001) and to build pro-social…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Social Values, Student Volunteers, Followup Studies
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Trinitapoli, Jenny; Vaisey, Stephen – Social Forces, 2009
Sociologists have long sought to understand the relationship between collective experiences and individual commitments. This article examines the short-term mission as an institutionalized religious experience, assessing its prevalence, predictors and impact on the religious trajectories of the youth who participate in them. Religiously devout…
Descriptors: Group Experience, Individual Development, Adolescents, Identification