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Article: Bridging Cultures through Unpaid Labor: US Volunteer Teachers’ Experiences in China’s Yunnan Province
Title | Bridging Cultures through Unpaid Labor: US Volunteer Teachers’ Experiences in China’s Yunnan Province |
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Keywords | China Development Exchange Intercultural understanding Volunteering |
Issue Date | 2016 |
Publisher | Springer New York LLC. The Journal's web site is located at http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0957-8765 |
Citation | Voluntas, 2016, v. 27, p. 2330-2352 How to Cite? |
Abstract | International volunteering has become a complex field in the context of globalization. Within the discourses of international volunteering and development programs as well as in the voices of volunteers, the field can be understood as one of unpaid transnational labor, as social activism and altruism, and as a new “soft power” post-colonial agenda. Many studies contend in this context that international volunteers need better training for intercultural understanding amidst these disparate frameworks, to make meaning out of their service and effectively contribute to communities they serve. This study examines the motivations, experiences, and challenges of US volunteer teachers in China’s Yunnan Province as reported within a survey implemented in 2012. Findings elaborate on the challenge volunteers face reconciling cross-cultural views of education while working in post-colonial global contexts, and suggest that intercultural training is necessary to prepare volunteers for related global work practices in the future. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/212016 |
ISSN | 2021 Impact Factor: 2.794 2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.785 |
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dc.contributor.author | Jackson, EJ | - |
dc.contributor.author | Adarlo, GM | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-07-21T02:19:22Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-07-21T02:19:22Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Voluntas, 2016, v. 27, p. 2330-2352 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0957-8765 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/212016 | - |
dc.description.abstract | International volunteering has become a complex field in the context of globalization. Within the discourses of international volunteering and development programs as well as in the voices of volunteers, the field can be understood as one of unpaid transnational labor, as social activism and altruism, and as a new “soft power” post-colonial agenda. Many studies contend in this context that international volunteers need better training for intercultural understanding amidst these disparate frameworks, to make meaning out of their service and effectively contribute to communities they serve. This study examines the motivations, experiences, and challenges of US volunteer teachers in China’s Yunnan Province as reported within a survey implemented in 2012. Findings elaborate on the challenge volunteers face reconciling cross-cultural views of education while working in post-colonial global contexts, and suggest that intercultural training is necessary to prepare volunteers for related global work practices in the future. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Springer New York LLC. The Journal's web site is located at http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0957-8765 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Voluntas | - |
dc.rights | The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11266-014-9519-1 | - |
dc.subject | China | - |
dc.subject | Development | - |
dc.subject | Exchange | - |
dc.subject | Intercultural understanding | - |
dc.subject | Volunteering | - |
dc.title | Bridging Cultures through Unpaid Labor: US Volunteer Teachers’ Experiences in China’s Yunnan Province | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Jackson, EJ: lizjackson@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Jackson, EJ=rp01633 | - |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s11266-014-9519-1 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84908519359 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 245880 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 27 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 2330 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 2352 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000384441500017 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0957-8765 | - |