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Zhang, Donghui – Frontiers of Education in China, 2018
With the rapid expansion of Confucius Institutes globally, the Hanban launched a Volunteer Chinese Teachers (VCT) Program with the purpose of selecting a large number of college graduates and graduate students from Chinese universities to fill vacancies for overseas Chinese teachers. In spite of the multitude of students participating in the…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, College Graduates
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Dlaske, Kati – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2016
Volunteer tourism is one of the latest branches of the ever expanding globalised tourism. The initiative Workaway, an expression of this trend, was established in the late 90s with the aim of promoting "cultural understanding between different peoples and lands throughout the world". The figure of the workawayer as a new cosmopolitan…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Volunteers, Tourism