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Angod, Leila – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2022
"Voluntourism," or "volunteer abroad," is a form of travel involving unpaid work intended to benefit a local community. Critiques of voluntourism as reproducing and, indeed, perpetuating global inequities are yielding a re-framing of voluntourism around principles of "partnership" and "equality." Drawing…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Student Volunteers, Social Justice, Travel
Haqqee, Zeeshan; Goff, Lori; Knorr, Kris; Gill, Michael B. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Many peer mentorship programs in academia train senior students to guide groups of incoming students through the rigors of postsecondary education. The mentorship program's structure can influence how mentors develop from this experience. Here, we compare how two different peer mentorship programs have shaped mentors' experiences and development.…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Goal Orientation, Mentors, Student Volunteers
Pulsifer, Kenzie; Feagan, Robert B.; Sliwinski, Alicia – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2020
International experiential learning (IEL) has various pedagogical concerns associated with the colonial and racialized lineage underlying its Global South engagements. Drawing on critical race theory, White privilege, and globally engaged learning research as they inform IEL, this case-based study of "northern" participant perceptions of…
Descriptors: Race, Service Learning, Partnerships in Education, Foreign Countries
Wilson, Jay R.; Yates, Thomas T.; Purton, Kendra – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
A pilot study was conducted to explore student preferences, performance, and perceptions of experiential learning assessment following experiential learning instruction. A learning experience, using semi-directed instruction and experiential learning methods, was given to 13 student volunteers who were then assessed using a case study,…
Descriptors: Preferences, Experiential Learning, Pilot Projects, Foreign Countries
Trottier-Scully, Taylor; Ritchie, Kerry – Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, 2019
Through a previous review of high impact practices at our institution, we identified that health science students have very few opportunities to engage in experiential learning (EL) in the current curriculum. This paper describes our work to transform an existing volunteer opportunity at an allied health clinic, into a meaningful, student-driven,…
Descriptors: Student Volunteers, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Teaching Assistants
King, Alyson E.; McQuarrie, Fiona A. E.; Brigham, Susan M. – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2021
In our research on university students from historically under-represented backgrounds who successfully graduate from their undergraduate degree program or are in their final year, we found that many who participated in out-of-class activities indicated those activities were important to their success. We take a strengths-based approach to focus…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Persistence, Student Participation, Extracurricular Activities
OECD Publishing, 2021
The OECD Career Readiness project makes use of quantitative evidence to investigate how teenage career-related activities and attitudes are associated with better adult employment outcomes. Review of multiple national longitudinal datasets confirms 11 indicators of better outcomes linked to the ways in which teenagers explore, experience and think…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Secondary Schools, Secondary School Students, Employment
OECD Publishing, 2021
The OECD Career Readiness project makes use of quantitative evidence to identify how teenage career-related activities and attitudes are linked with better adult employment outcomes. Review of multiple national longitudinal datasets confirms that teenage experiences of the workplace through part-time working and volunteering are routinely…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Work Attitudes, Value Judgment, Adolescents
Fournier-Sylvester, Nicole – Canadian Journal of Education, 2014
This survey of 370 recent high school graduates reveals that history and citizenship courses in Quebec focus on cultural and religious viewpoints, favour a transmission approach to learning, and fail to connect the political process to students' concerns and interests. Without a clear conception of citizenship as a reference point, this curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, High School Graduates, Graduate Surveys
Bista, Krishna; Gaulee, Uttam – Journal of International Students, 2017
This section shares recent dissertations and theses with the "Journal of International Students" readers. There were about 139 graduate dissertations and theses related to the issues and challenges of international students in 2016. The complete versions of these selected dissertations are available in the ProQuest, Michigan-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Content Analysis
Harder, Ben – Christian Higher Education, 2011
The Student Volunteer Movement (SVM) for Foreign Missions was founded in 1886 at a Conference in the Mt. Hermon University, an organization designed to recruit college and university students in the United States and later of course through the Western world, for missionary service abroad. The primary leader of the SVM was A. T. Pierson, a major…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Christianity, Information Dissemination
Bell, David; And Others – School Guidance Worker, 1983
Describes the Learning Assistance program, which uses student volunteers to staff a study area for college students with physical handicaps. A training program for volunteers was conducted. Both handicapped students and volunteers thought the program was helpful. (JAC)
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Facilities, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Eberly, Donald J., Ed. – 1992
This report summarizes the national service programs and proposals discussed at the first global conference on national service held in June of 1992. Current programs include those in France and Germany where civilian service may be performed as an alternative to mandatory military service. In Nigeria university graduates perform a year of…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Programs, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Hedges, Henry G. – 1973
Documented here is a project involving three extensions or adaptations for using volunteers in schools. The first adaptation involves a plan for meeting certain major needs of a secondary school with volunteer help. This plan includes components designed to reorganize the secondary school curriculum to allow some of the students to study aspects…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Differentiated Staffs, Elementary School Students, Individualized Reading
Math, Hannah; Virgin, Albert E. – 1975
The purpose of this study was to examine the academic and social growth of first grade pupils whose teachers received one of the following sources of assistance: (1) information regarding pupil performance on academic and social measures early in the school year, (2) student volunteers who assisted the teacher on a regular basis, and (3) both test…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Grade 1
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